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Josephine Butler (activist)
Josephine Dorothy Butler (January 24, 1920 ― March 29, 1997) was an American activist. She co-founded and was chairman of the D.C. Statehood Party. Early life Butler was born in Brandywine, Maryland, on January 24, 1920, as one of nine children of African-American tobacco sharecroppers Joseph and Helen Arabelle Jenifer. Butler and other students attended school in shanties in the woods until it became possible to attend the newly-constructed Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Some local whites violently opposed black education, stoning school buses and threatening parents. Butler recalled, "They saw that if we got more education we would go to the city and get better jobs and then white farm owners would have no one to work in their fields." As a result of Butler's school attendance, her father lost work, forcing her mother to work in Washington, D.C., as a live-in domestic servant. She then attended Strayer University. Activism and career In 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandywine, Maryland
Brandywine is the name of an unincorporated area in Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, that refers both to a census-designated place (CDP) and a zip code area which is much larger (20613), whose areas overlap. The population of Brandywine at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census was 10,550 for the CDP, and the population of ZIP code 20613 was 11,860 in 2010. Brandywine is in the southernmost area of Prince George’s County, surrounded by a rural setting. It is in the Southern Maryland region. Brandywine is also a suburb of two cities: it lies within the outer Metropolitan Washington, suburban Washington D.C. area and is also a close suburb of Waldorf, Maryland, Waldorf. Geography The CDP and town are adjacent to the southern border of Prince George's County, lying east and west of busy Maryland Route 5/U.S. Route 301 in Maryland, U.S. Route 301, which merge at Brandywine. Brandywine CDP is bordered by Accokeek, Maryland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
