Celebrating Historic Women of Oakland
Saturday, March 31, 10 a.m. to
Noon Mills College, Oakland City (map)
Carnegie Hall, Bender Room (campus
map) Free and open to all
A celebration of famous Oakland Women on the beautiful Mills
College Campus.
Program Highlights:
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Gloria Fangon-Hitz: Co-founder of
POWER, graduated Mills 1980, Caldecott broker associate:
Welcome and introduction.
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Annalee Allen, Oakland historian -
Historic Oakland women:
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Delilah Beasley
1871-1934 |
Ina Coolbrith 1841-1928 |
Julia Morgan 1872-1957 |
Aurelia Reinhardt
1877-1948 |
Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 |
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Priya Kandaswamy, Professor, Mills
College Women's Studies Program: The history of
women's studies.
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Molly Murphy McGregor, president and
founder of the National Women's History Project.
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Isadora Duncan
as a "famous" Oakland Woman, performed by Lois Flood.
Printable
program for this event
Photos from the event: (click for
full images)
This event was part of the series: A Century of
Empowered Women – Let's Keep Making History,
presented by
Progressive Oakland Women for
Empowerment and Reform (POWER)
in cooperation with
American Association of
University Women, Oakland-Piedmont
League of Women Voters,
Oakland
National Women's
History Project
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