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Helen Noble Curtis (1874–1961) was an American activist, service worker, educator, and speaker.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: Activism, Addie Waites Hunton, African Methodist Episcopal Church, American Expeditionary Forces, Ancestry.com, Anti-lynching movement, Armistice Day, Blood donation, Brothel, Cafeteria, Camp Fire (organization), Camp Upton, Capitol Theatre (New York City), Centennial, Charles D. B. King, Chicago, Chicken, Civil defense in the United States, Coffin, Consul (representative), Corset, Dressmaker, Feminism, Freetown, French language, Government of Sweden, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jane Addams, Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, League of Peace and Freedom, Liberia, Lunch, Marcus Garvey, Mary Burnett Talbert, Military Intelligence Division (United States), Missionary, Monrovia, NAACP, National Council of Negro Women, New Orleans, Obituary, Pan-African Congress, Paris, Playground, Propaganda, Prostitution, Racial segregation in the United States, Resident minister, Rum, Southern University at New Orleans, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. African-American missionaries
  3. Anti-lynching movement
  4. Pan-Africanists
  5. People from Monrovia
  6. Southern University at New Orleans alumni

Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Addie Waites Hunton

Addie Waites Hunton (June 11, 1866 – June 22, 1943) was an African-American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.

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American Expeditionary Forces

The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was a formation of the United States Armed Forces on the Western Front during World War I, composed mostly of units from the U.S. Army.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anti-lynching movement

The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching.

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Armistice Day

Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 although, according to Thomas R.

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Blood donation

A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole blood components).

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Cafeteria

A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S. and Canada, is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or lunchroom (in American English).

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Camp Fire (organization)

Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization.

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Camp Upton

Camp Upton was a port of embarkation of the United States Army during World War I. It was located in Yaphank, New York in Suffolk County on Long Island, on the present-day location of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Capitol Theatre (New York City)

The Capitol Theatre was a movie palace located at 1645 Broadway, just north of Times Square in New York City, across from the Winter Garden Theatre.

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Centennial

A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of an exact century.

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Charles D. B. King

Charles Dunbar Burgess King (12 March 1875 – 4 September 1961) was a Liberian politician who served as the 17th president of Liberia from 1920 to 1930.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion, and an annual production of more than 50 billion birds.

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Civil defense in the United States

Civil defense in the United States refers to the use of civil defense in the history of the United States, which is the organized non-military effort to prepare Americans for military attack and similarly disastrous events.

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Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.

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Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Corset

A corset is a support undergarment worn to hold and train the torso into the desired shape and posture.

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Dressmaker

A dressmaker, also known as a seamstress, is a person who makes clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Government of Sweden

The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden (Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's executive authority.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Jane Addams

Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author.

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Kathryn Magnolia Johnson

Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (December 15, 1878 – November 13, 1954) was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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League of Peace and Freedom

The Ligue internationale de la paix (League of Peace and Freedom) was created after a public opinion campaign against a war between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia over Luxembourg.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Lunch

Lunch is a meal eaten around the middle of the day.

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist.

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Mary Burnett Talbert

Mary Burnett Talbert (born Mary Morris Burnett; September 17, 1866 – October 15, 1923) was an American orator, activist, suffragist and reformer.

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Military Intelligence Division (United States)

The Military Intelligence Division was the military intelligence branch of the United States Army and United States Department of War from May 1917 (as the Military Intelligence Section, then Military Intelligence Branch in February 1918, then Military Intelligence Division in June 1918) to March 1942.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Monrovia

Monrovia is the capital and largest city of Liberia.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.

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National Council of Negro Women

The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families, and communities.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Obituary

An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person.

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Pan-African Congress

The Pan-African Congress (PAC) was a series of eight meetings which took place on the back of the Pan-African Conference held in London in 1900.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Playground

A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Racial segregation in the United States

Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.

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Resident minister

A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.

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Rum

Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.

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Southern University at New Orleans

Southern University at New Orleans (also known as SUNO) is a public historically black university in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The New York Age

The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey.

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Waldorf Astoria New York

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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William Tubman

William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (29 November 1895 – 23 July 1971) was a Liberian politician.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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YMCA

YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.

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YWCA

The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries.

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See also

African-American missionaries

Anti-lynching movement

Pan-Africanists

People from Monrovia

Southern University at New Orleans alumni

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Noble_Curtis

Also known as Helen M. Curtis.

, Surgery, The Birth of a Nation, The New York Age, The New York Times, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, Waldorf Astoria New York, Washington, D.C., William Tubman, World War I, World War II, YMCA, YWCA.