Edna Gladney, the Glossary
Edna Browning Kahly Gladney (January 22, 1886 – October 2, 1961) was an early campaigner for children's rights and better living conditions for disadvantaged children.[1]
Table of Contents
33 relations: Academy Award for Best Actress, Amon G. Carter, Birth certificate, Blossoms in the Dust, Bust (sculpture), Children's Aid, Diabetes, Disability, Facebook, Feeble-minded, Fort Worth, Texas, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gainesville, Texas, Gladney Center for Adoption, Grayson County, Texas, Greer Garson, Hygiene, Kidd-Key College, Legitimacy (family law), Mental disorder, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Milwaukee, Orphan Train, Poverty, Sherman, Texas, Social work, Street children, Texas Christian University, University of North Texas Libraries, Valentine's Day, Waif, Walter Pidgeon, Wolfe City, Texas.
- Adoption activists
- Adoption history
- Adoption workers
- American children's rights activists
Academy Award for Best Actress
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Amon G. Carter
Amon Giles Carter Sr. (born Giles Amon Carter; December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955) was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas.
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Birth certificate
A birth certificate is a vital record that documents the birth of a person.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds.
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Bust (sculpture)
A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders.
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Children's Aid
Children's Aid, formerly the Children's Aid Society, is a private child welfare nonprofit in New York City founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace.
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Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
Disability
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
Feeble-minded
The term feeble-minded was used from the late 19th century in Europe, the United States and Australasia for disorders later referred to as illnesses or deficiencies of the mind.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
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Gainesville, Texas
Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Cooke County, Texas, United States.
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Gladney Center for Adoption
The Gladney Center for Adoption in Fort Worth, Texas, US, provides adoption and advocacy services. Edna Gladney and Gladney Center for Adoption are adoption history and adoption workers.
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Grayson County, Texas
Grayson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Greer Garson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-American actress and singer.
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Hygiene
Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.
Kidd-Key College
Kidd-Key College was a college and music conservatory for women located in Sherman, Texas.
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Legitimacy (family law)
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
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Orphan Train
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. Edna Gladney and Orphan Train are adoption history.
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Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
Sherman, Texas
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States.
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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
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Street children
Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.
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Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private research university in Fort Worth, Texas.
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University of North Texas Libraries
The University of North Texas Libraries is an American academic research library system that serves the constituent colleges and schools of University of North Texas in Denton.
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Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.
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Waif
A waif (from the Old French guaif, "stray beast")Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1).
Walter Pidgeon
Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.
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Wolfe City, Texas
Wolfe City is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, located at the intersection of State Highways 34 and 11.
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See also
Adoption activists
- Alex Gilbert (adoption advocate)
- Bertha Holt
- Betty Jean Lifton
- Donald N. Duquette
- Edna Gladney
- Eunice Eichler
- Jillian Lauren
- Lina Eve
- Max Baer (judge)
- Rukh-Shana Namuyimba
- Wendy Hawke
Adoption history
- 2007 Zoé's Ark controversy
- A Death in White Bear Lake
- A Girl Like Her (2012 film)
- Adoption Covenant
- Adoption in ancient Rome
- Baby Scoop Era
- Candace Newmaker
- Charles Loring Brace
- Children's Friend Society
- Concordia station (Kansas)
- Custody battle for Anna Mae He
- Edna Gladney
- Forced adoption in Australia
- Foundling Hospital
- Georgia Tann
- Gladney Center for Adoption
- Home Children
- Homechild
- International adoption of South Korean children
- Japanese orphans in China
- Jessie Taft
- Kinder der Landstrasse
- Knésetja
- LGBT adoption
- New York Foundling
- Operation Babylift
- Orphan Train
- Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
- Sixties Scoop
- Stolen Generations
- Swiss children coercion reparation initiative
- Tennessee Children's Home Society
Adoption workers
- Adoption Covenant
- Bernice Gottlieb
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Charles Loring Brace
- Craig Juntunen
- Diane Kunz
- Edna Gladney
- Georgia Tann
- Gladney Center for Adoption
- Jane Russell
- Jennalee Ryan
- Jessie Taft
- Peter L. Pond
- Raymond W. Godwin
- Rosalind Shand
- Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
- Susan Bissell
- Tony Rampton (businessman)
- Wendy Hawke
American children's rights activists
- Alice Locke Park
- Bryan Stevenson
- Chris Hansen
- Claudine Dianne Ryce
- David M. Smolin
- Donna Lewis Friess
- Dorothy Allred Solomon
- Dorothy Stoneman
- Dove Kull
- Edna Gladney
- Evelyn Einstein
- Flora Dungan
- James R. Dumpson
- Jane Addams
- Jason Russell
- Jerome G. Miller
- Jordan Riak
- Joyce Dinkins
- Juanita Sánchez
- Keith Hefner
- Lucy Flower
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Marie Louise Obenauer
- Mary Beth Tinker
- Mary Reilly (advocate)
- Mia Farrow
- Ned Holstein
- Nicholas Alahverdian
- Paris Hilton
- Robert Sanborn
- Sonia Yaco
- Virginia Thrall Smith
- Whiquitta Tobar
- Winifred Green
- Zuriel Oduwole