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- A ‘graffiti’ wall reveals women’s stories from the South African War
But the rock shelter’s back wall contains a remarkable piece of South African history There you can see images of women in crinoline dresses, as well as names and initials, painted onto
- Fanny Kelly - Wikipedia
Fanny Kelly (c 1845–1904 [1]) was a North American pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871
- Ceija Stojka Survived Three Concentration Camps and Captured . . . - Artsy
Stojka painted many of these painful arrest and deportation scenes Her fixation with the starting point of her group’s torment reflects the mixture of personal and collective grievance in her work: She spoke for those who could no longer speak
- The Bittersweet Legacy of Herefords POW Camp - Texas Highways
Krukkert and the camp’s Catholic chaplain secured permission for nine artists, led by fascist noncollaborator Captain Franco Di Bello, to paint the bare white walls of the St Mary’s sanctuary in exchange for home-cooked meals provided by the women of the church
- The Real Story Behind the ‘Migrant Mother’ Photo
From the moment it first appeared in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper in March 1936, the image known as “Migrant Mother” came to symbolize the hunger, poverty and hopelessness endured by so
- Life Story: Louisa Smith - Women the American Story
This is the story of Louisa Smith, a woman who survived the Union contraband camps during the American Civil War
- Celia’s Story – POW in Burma | SWWEC - War Experience
When they were captured, Celia’s father was transferred to the former Military Police camp while she, her mother and brother were interned in what had been the Brother’s School
- The Imagery of Sacagawea by Brian W. Dippie - History Jackson Hole
“Discovered” by women with a point to make in the early years of the twentieth century, Sacagawea as an icon of women’s liberation was the subject of five sculptures before the First World War
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