While industrialists were building the great rubber factories, cereal mills, and potteries, Akron women were weaving together the cultural and moral fabric of the city. Women established churches, hospitals, schools, and cultural institutions, even as they nurtured their families and worked in the city's factories, stores, and offices. Even though they were busy holding the fabric of Akron life together, they still found time to enjoy the city's wonderful entertainment and recreational attributes. Akron Women captures the rich diversity, determination, spirit, courage, and energy of this extraordinary population of women through the use of historic photos, rare advertising, and supporting commentary.
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Kathleen L. Endres is a distinguished professor of Communications at the University of Akron and has written extensively on the history of Akron women. Carolyn H. Herman has been active in the women's community in Akron for 20 years; she is especially devoted to the Women's Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation, one of the groups benefiting from the profits of this book and the only local grant-making entity that exclusively funds projects that benefit women and girls in Summit County, Ohio. Penny L. Fox is a native Ohioan, a freelance writer, and a business owner.
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Conventional histories of Akron have focused on the founding fathers, the industrialists who built the giant rubber factories, cereal mills, and potteries, and the men who led the city and its institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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World War, International Institute, Summit County Collection, University of Akron, South High Street, Zion Lutheran Church, Cheryl Sadler, Children's Hospital, Donna Russell, Goodyear Aircraft, Jean Ann, Lucrete Endres, Mary Boley, Mary Ellen, Sam Shepard Collection, Soap Box, Bernard's Catholic Church, Denise Remark Lundell, Dolli Quattrocchi Gold, North Hill, Special Collections, Western Reserve Girl Scout Council, Arlene Cohen Rossen, Aunt Billie, East Akron New!
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Conventional histories of Akron have focused on the founding fathers, the industrialists who built the giant rubber factories, cereal mills, and potteries, and the men who led the city and its institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rubber factories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, International Institute, Summit County Collection, University of Akron, South High Street, Zion Lutheran Church, Cheryl Sadler, Children's Hospital, Donna Russell, Goodyear Aircraft, Jean Ann, Lucrete Endres, Mary Boley, Mary Ellen, Sam Shepard Collection, Soap Box, Bernard's Catholic Church, Denise Remark Lundell, Dolli Quattrocchi Gold, North Hill, Special Collections, Western Reserve Girl Scout Council, Arlene Cohen Rossen, Aunt Billie, East Akron New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Old World by Jonathan Strong on page 50
- Christian Science (Skeptic's Bookshelf) by Mark Twain on page 66
- County Fair (My First Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder on page 92
- Sacred Heart by Regina Press Malhame & Company on page 76
- The Public Library (In the High Street) by Graeme Kent in Back Matter
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