Dislocations of the self: Eliza Franham at Sing Sing Prison

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Eliza Franham, a matron in the first purpose-built women's prison popularly known as Sing Sing in New York was a pivotal figure in the argument for phrenology's efficacy in treating prisoners in the mid-1840s. The significance of Farnham's work at Sing Sing is assessed and the relationship between Farnham's phrenological investigations into the characters of women prisoners and her transformation of the prison interior as well as the relationship between women's subjectivity and space is examined.

Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Practice, Prison wardens, 1840 AD, Franham, Eliza, New York. Department of Correctional Services. Sing Sing Correctional Facility

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"Never argue with the Gallup Poll": Thomas Dewey, civil rights and the election of 1948

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Thomas Dewey, the progressive Republican governor of New York from 1942 to 1954, lost presidential elections in 1948 against Harry S. Truman whose victory was credited to the farm vote indicating that without the votes of African-Americans Truman's victory was impossible. The reasons for Dewey's failure are examined by surveying his record on civil rights as a governor and his abject failure to convert the African-American votes in 1948.

African Americans, Governors, Dewey, Thomas E.

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State of the art: Martin Luther King, Jr

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The rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. to leadership during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama to his 1968 assassination in Memphis, Tennessee are narrated. A number of studies examining the civil rights movement at local and state levels made it clear that civil rights struggles already existed in many of the communities where King and the organization of which he was president ran civil rights campaigns in 1960s.

Public affairs, Alabama, Social aspects, Americans, King, Martin Luther, Jr.

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