Eliza Leslie, “LUCY NELSON; Or, The Boy Girl,” Juvenile Miscellany 1, no. 2 (December 1831): 149–159, p. 150. Image Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
“The Tom-Boy who was changed into a real boy” McGloughlin Bros. 1859. Image Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society
An exploration of the brief but significant life of African American educator Juliette Derricotte.
Eliza Leslie, “LUCY NELSON; Or, The Boy Girl,” Juvenile Miscellany 1, no. 2 (December 1831): 149–159, p. 149 Image Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society
In this 1924 picture from the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, Derricotte is pictured first from the left in the front row (Mabel Byrd, another woman I study is seated next to her) with New York alumnae sorors of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s Alpha Beta…
Juliette Derricotte
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This exhibit, published originally on OutHistory in 2014, explores a series of stories published in children’s books and magazines in antebellum America. Some portray children being punished for transgressing gender roles, others expose the range of…
President Truman issues Executive Order 9835 and creates the Loyalty-Security Program. Under the order, officials were permitted to investigate any federal government employee suspected of disloyalty or engaging in subversive activities. This led to…
Kurt Hiller, a key leader in the movement for sex law reform in Germany, was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis. Hiller managed eventually to escape Germany and flee to Prague and then London, thus surviving the Holocaust.
Zachie Achmat, Racial Justice and AIDS Activist