Talk:Black Cross Nurses

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Did you know... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles?

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Hi! I didn't want to create an edit conflict. I have some Vivian Seay and Black Cross info (though some of this might be better for an article and Seay. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:33, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source:

Macpherson, Anne S. (May 2003). "Citizens v. Clients: Working Women and Colonial Reform in Puerto Rico and Belize, 1932-45". Journal of Latin American Studies. 35 (2): 279–310. Retrieved 29 January 2016 – via JSTOR. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

By the 1950s, Seay and reformers who focused on the middle class were supplanted by the "militant activism of working women." (page 301)

Black Cross Nurses would do home visits and encourage women to visit clinics in Belize Town during the late 1930s. (page 295)

Seay was appointed to the Belize Town Board and served from 1933 to 1936. (page 296)

Seay earned a Member of the British Empire Award in 1935. (page 296)

The Black Cross Nurses marched every year in the "annual parade of loyalty to empire and monarchy." (page 296-297)

Seay supported a Women's Land Settlement Scheme which would give 50 single mothers a combined total of 1000 acres of land. (it didn't succeed it seems) (page 297)

The Black Cross Nurses urged a youth curfew to be imposed in 1940 in order to "combat 'lax parenting.'" (p. 300)

I added her separately to the Black Women's History editathon, as yes, I agree, she deserves her own article. Not necessarily a feminist, more of a Victorian moralist figure, but important for the development of women's identities in the Caribbean, and certainly Belize. SusunW (talk) 20:41, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I think she's interesting, if nothing else. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More stuff:

"Birthday of Mr. Marcus Garvey is Celebrated". Kingston Gleaner. 19 August 1929. Retrieved 29 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

In 1929 Marcus Garvey called the Belize chapter the "most up-to-date unit of the Black Cross Nurses throughout the world." Garvey had viewed their work in both Belize and in Jamaica.

The Black Cross Nurses had been recognized as an auxiliary in the British Honduras.

Goldson, T.O.B. (13 May 1998). "The Black Cross Nurse of Jamaica". Kingston Gleaner. Retrieved 29 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

Sarah Grant may have been one of the best known Black Cross Nurses in Jamaica.

Grant died in 1992 at the age of 104. She joined the UNIA in 1922 and shortly after became a Black Cross Nurse auxiliary.

Grant trained at least 29 other Black Cross Nurses in Jamaica.

Baker, Peta-Anne (17 October 2010). "No More Heroes". Kingston Gleaner. Retrieved 29 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

In Jamaica, the Black Cross Nurses provided community health-education programs. These workshops focused on teaching parents about child development and nutrition as well as "addressing the welfare needs of members and the urban poor."

In Jamaica, the Black Cross Nurses did "extensive youth-development work," including the "creation of uniformed groups for both youth and adults."

Harris, Ron (17 August 1987). "Today, Many Stop to Remember 'Black Moses'". Altoona Mirror. Retrieved 29 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

Black Cross Nurses have aided flood victims in New Orleans and also earthquake victims in Costa Rica.

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I found these: --Rosiestep (talk) 04:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CBPM
PBS
UNIA
Vivian Seay on the Harvard website
Wiley abstract
Keller, Rosemary Skinner; Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Cantlon, Marie (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism. Indiana University Press. pp. 1078–. ISBN 0-253-34688-6.
Franklin, Donna (11 September 2001). What's Love Got to Do With It?: Understanding and Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women. Simon and Schuster. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-7432-0321-0.
Summers, Martin (15 December 2005). Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 137–. ISBN 978-0-8078-6417-3.

@Megalibrarygirl and Rosiestep: This is awesome! Feel free to add whatever you want. Thanks for starting on Seay, Rosie. SusunW (talk) 05:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That redlink was "low hanging fruit" and I couldn't help myself. Lol! --Rosiestep (talk) 05:58, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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