Faith Holsaert
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Faith Holsaert (born 1943) is an American educator and activist during the civil rights movement.
Holsaert was born in New York City in 1943.[1] She was raised by her Jewish mother, Eunice Spellman Holsaert, who was divorced, and her female African American music teacher, Charity Abigail Bailey, in the same household, in Greenwich Village.[1][2] Being brought up in a biracial household, headed by two mother-figures, she was raised in the midst much unrest and disapproval from those around her.[3] She volunteered for the Harlem Brotherhood Group and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a teenager.[1][2] She matriculated to Barnard University in 1961, when she first participated in a sit-in in Crisfield, Maryland to protest racial segregation.[2][3] She was arrested at the sit-in.[1] She registered voters in Terrell County, Georgia in 1962.[1][2] She also volunteered for the Brown Berets.[2] She resides in Durham, North Carolina.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Holsaert, Faith S., ed. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. ISBN 9780252078880
- Holsaert, Faith S. Year Forever in My Veins. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Documentary Poems. Durham, NC: Backbone Press Inc, 2020. ISBN 9780999465998
- Holsaert, Faith S. Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2024. ISBN 9780814350799
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Faith Holsaert". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Friedman, Jordan. "Holsaert started her civil rights activism at early age". USA Today. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ a b Faith Holsaert, “Resistance U,” Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith Holsaert, et al. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 181-195.
External links
[edit]- Faith Holsaert papers, 1950-2011 at Duke University Libraries
- SNCC Digital Gateway: Faith Holsaert, Documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out
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