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View of the first four boosters of the Housewives League of Detroit. The women are wearing winter coats and hats; three of the women are carrying briefcases, one is carrying a purse. Printed on front: "Theus Photo". Handwritten on back: "MS/ Housewives League of Detroit - Box 4; First Housewives League of Detroit Boosters; l. to r. Mrs. Naomi Dean, Mrs. Mary Beasley, Mrs. Gertrude Tolbert Rogers, Mrs. Ethel Hemsley." Photograph taken by Theus Photo Service, 4508 Hastings, Detroit, Mich. c. 1930.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling that her mother doesn’t want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the speeches from guest activists like Paul Robeson and Thurgood Marshall stir African Americans in her community to stand up for their rights. Betty quickly finds confidence and purpose in volunteering for the Housewives League, an organization that supports black-owned businesses. Soon, the American civil rights icon we now know as Dr. Betty Shabazz is born.

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Betty Shabazz would have been 85 years old today. 🙏🏾 Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was born Betty Dean Sanders. Although her birth records have been lost, she was likely born on May 28, 1934. Betty X and Malcolm X were married on January 14, 1958, in Michigan. The couple eventually had six daughters. Betty Dean Sanders was born to Ollie Mae Sanders and Shelman Sandlin. Sandlin was 21 years old and Ollie Mae Sanders was a teenager; the couple was unmarried. Throughout her life, Betty Sanders maintained that she had been born in Detroit, Michigan, but early records—such as her high-school and college transcripts—show Pinehurst, Georgia, as her place of birth. Authorities in Georgia and Michigan have not been able to locate her birth certificate. By most accounts, Ollie Mae Sanders abused Betty Sanders, whom she was raising in Detroit. When Betty was about 11 years old, she was taken in by Lorenzo and Helen Malloy, a prominent businessman and his wife. Helen Malloy was a founding member of the Housewives League of Detroit, a group of African-American women who organized campaigns to support black-owned businesses and boycott stores that refused to hire black employees. After she graduated from high school, Sanders left her foster parents' home in Detroit to study at the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), a historically black college in Alabama that was Lorenzo Malloy's alma mater. She intended to earn a degree in education and become a teacher. When she left Detroit to go to Alabama, her foster mother stood at the train station crying. Shabazz later recalled that Malloy was trying to mumble something, but the words would not come out. By the time she arrived in Alabama, she felt she knew what her foster mother was saying. "The minute I got off that train, I knew what she was trying to say. She was trying to tell me in ten words or less about racism." Nothing had prepared Sanders for Southern racism. So long as she stayed on campus, she could avoid interacting with white people, but weekend trips into Montgomery, the nearest city, would try her patience. Black students had to wait until every white person in a store had been helped befor https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_vgpWgTvg/?igshid=uk0c7ahnb440

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Toni Harris facing death threats and discrimination as a female football player

​It’s clear that football is evolving, but now it’s time to look at things from a different angle. Yes the sport is becoming more inclusive for females, but what about the negative aspects due to women breaking the gender barriers of this game?

Toni Harris, a Detroit native and a Safety at East Los Angeles College is the JUCO product we’ve heard about wanting to be the first female NFL player. So far she’s headed down the right path to get her to her goal; successful academic achievement, being the second woman to receive full-ride scholarship offers from NAIA schools such as Bethany and from Adams State, and many more colleges to officially play football.

But along with her accomplishments comes a lot of backlash.

“I have faced discrimination issues involving my gender, coaches telling me I’m not a college football player, no one would recruit me because I was a female & that I wasn’t strong, fast, or big as the guys,” says Harris.

“I’ve even had death threats from people to make me quit.”

But these aren’t Toni’s first experiences of harassment. When Toni was a little girl, her love for football came to life when watching her cousins play football.

With a growing desire to play like her cousins, Toni began participating in youth football. Unfortunately, she was soon forced to leave the team because she was a girl.

Since the time she started dreaming of playing football people have been prejudice, giving her lip and side eyes. But, the question is how was she able to deal with it for all these years?

“It can be discouraging at times but I just use it as motivation to keep going everyday,” says Harris.

“I feel like those people are only one minded, they don’t believe in the impossible & the impossible happens everyday.”

Speaking of “the impossible,” women participating in, picking up on any activities or hobbies that are thought to only be for men— like football are usually thought of as impossible. Toni Harris believes contrary to those statements.

“Back in the day, it was not accepted that women played football and women barely did it because men sought us out to be housewives and in a kitchen but now people are beginning to accept it a lot more.”

Based on Toni’s words, some people still use this way of thinking and try to force these outdated norms onto society. However, it’s hard to have a fixed view when the vast majority of society and it’s way of thinking is continuously evolving. More women are playing and now more people are starting to accept it.

“I do believe the sport is evolving now that more woman are interacting because now these ladies are not afraid to show their talent & take it to the extreme,” says Harris.

“We are further in history than ever before.”

Now Toni is becoming a part of history from making changes in society as far a gender roles and athletics.

“Some advice I would give woman who aspire to break barriers would be to follow your dreams, keep your faith & stay ten toes down,” says Harris.

“Take the criticism & use it to be great. The sky is not the limit when there are footprints are the moon! “

As Toni gets closer to her NFL dreams, she says doesn’t mind being a part of any NFL team as long as her dream is sought out and accomplished.

“But if I had to choose it would be either The Jags, The Seahawks-my favorite team or the Lions because that’s my hometown.”

In order to even be considered for the league, Toni knows she has to give up some of the luxuries of being a young college student-athlete, including partying and hanging out with friends.

“I don’t want those things to steer me away from my dream,” says Harris.

“I know I have to be 10x more tuned in than the average player. I have to sacrifice. “

Outside of football, Toni is a frequent church goer and tutor. Since her JUCO career she has won The Student Athlete Academic All-star, Scholastic Athlete, and “The Game Changer” Awards. This summer she will be attending the sports banquet where she will possibly be awarded many other accolades.

Toni has yet to commit to either Bethany College or Adams State due to other colleges that have interest. Stay tuned for more about Toni in the future as she transitions from JUCO football.

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New Release

Betty Before X

By Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée Watson

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling that her mother doesn’t want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the speeches from guest activists like Paul Robeson and Thurgood Marshall stir African Americans in her community to stand up for their rights. Betty quickly finds confidence and purpose in volunteering for the Housewives League, an organization that supports black-owned businesses. Soon, the American civil rights icon we now know as Dr. Betty Shabazz is born.

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Women in the 1930’s: Timeline

1920: The 19th Amendment is passed, which gives women the right to vote (Beach).

1929: The stock market crashes and as many men, who had been the sole providers of household income, lose their jobs, women step up to join the workforce. They receive backlash for stealing jobs and are even blamed by some for starting the Great Depression (Lewis).

1930: The Detroit Black Women’s Housewives’ League by Fannie Peck with the goal of getting black women into the workforce (Grevatt).

1932: Amelia Earhart flys non-stop across the Atlanic. She is the first woman to do this as well as the second pilot ever to do so (Milestones in Women’s History).

1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as America’s 32nd president. His wife, Elenor Roosevelt, becomes a champion for women’s rights, a known supporter of the League of Women Voters and the efforts towards female racial equality (Dowd).

1933: Francis Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet official as Secretary of Labor (Lewis).

1935: “The Detroit Housewives’ League burned a meatpacking factory down as a show of protest against its high costs. They later stage a march in Chicago that shuts down the city’s meatpacking industry (Grevatt)

1937:The Flint sit-down strike female cigar workers begins in February. 4,000 women, most of them Polish, strike with the complaints of long work weeks, inadequate restrooms, and unsafe working conditions. In March, police attack those on strike, even throwing pregnant workers to the ground, and the backlash from the community is immense. By April 23, through the work of the Michigan governor Frank Murphy, an agreement is reached between the cigar factories and their female workers to draft a union contract (Grevatt).

1938: In the supreme court case of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish,  paying workers a standard minimum wage is made a requirement. This was key to the labor rights of many women (Lewis).

Beach, Justin. “Limits to Women's Rights in the 1930s.” Classroom, 27 June 2018, https://classroom.synonym.com/limits-to-womens-rights-in-the-1930s-12082808.html.

Dowd, Dr. Mary. “American Women in the 1890s.” Classroom, 26 June 2018, https://classroom.synonym.com/american-women-1890s-13099.html.

Grevatt, Martha. “1930s: The Women Were Fearless.” Worker's World, 27 Mar. 2008, https://www.workers.org/2008/us/womens_history_month_0403/.

Lewis, Jone Johnson. “Slow and Steady: Women's Changing Roles in 1930s America.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 19 Jan. 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-rights-1930s-4141164.

“Milestones in Women's History: A Timeline.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 26 Feb. 2019, https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/womens-history-us-timeline.

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Lately I have been hooked to watching Desperate Housewives online. The show has been on reruns of next and third season time and again and I want to to key in the fourth and 5th. So I searched online for an area to watch internet TV and within seconds there were several sites that showed up. Some were bogus ads nonetheless also found a involving good ones. FIFA 2014 is for you to be amongst the most memorable soccer tournaments of all time. It is in order to start on the 12th day's June till the 13th day of July 2014. This is really a one month period where soccer fans are expected to flood similar to cities of Brazil where matches need place. Really are millions 12 cities in Brazil, which will host the 2014 World Cup. Difficulties Rio de Janeiro its capital, Natal, Brasilia, and Belo Horizonte among persons. Think Xbox Live. Think Smartphone texts. Or netflix bingewatch (pop over to this site) streaming. While some waste some out of all these may be accessed by a web browser, the majority aren't. Also, the Bulls have two winnable games. Tonight, they have fun playing the Detroit Pistons, the eight and final seed furthermore slipping faster than the Sixers. And on Wednesday, they host the Raptors. LE: Last winter, WPS severed their relationship with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) for national marketing, a step beyond your MLS and obviously problems because on their website : really should not have national selling. This year, three MLS teams [Vancouver Whitecaps, N.C. United, and FC Dallas] affiliated with women's teams in W-League and WPSL and though two are fully-funded, they are not professional. How can WPS affiliate with Mls? With Kuo back on active roster, Troncoso was the odd man accessible. The right-hander were 6.23 ERA in 12 Games with Los Angeles and went 1-0 having a 4.91 ERA in 11 Games for your Isotopes earlier this season. He has 72 hours to are accountable to Albuquerque and was not in town as of Sunday evening. A brief primer for those who forget from week to week or year upon year. There is no mail delivered on Sunday. Ever. And there isn't mail delivered on federal holidays. It's that effortless. If you keep primary two rules in actually will never have to Google this question again.

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#Repost @bone14nov ・・・ (Happy Earth Day to Betty Dean Sanders, better know to the world as Dr. Betty Shabazz. Happy Birthday Queen) Betty Shabazz, wife and later widow of Malcolm X, became an important political activist after the assassination of her husband in 1965. Betty Shabazz was born Betty Dean Sanders to parents Ollie May Sanders and Shelman Sandlin. Ollie May Sanders was a teenager and Sandlin was 21 when Betty was born. They were unmarried. Early records indicate that Betty was born in Pinehurst, Georgia on May 28, 1934. Because Betty was neglected by Ollie May Sanders, she was eventually placed with Lorenzo Don Malloy and Helen Lowe Malloy who became her foster parents. Betty Sandlin grew up as part of the black middle-class in Detroit, Michigan. The Malloys instilled in their foster daughter the value of education, grace, and Christian ethics. They also taught her the ideals of black self-help and protest through the National Housewives League which Helen Mallory started in order to support black businesses and boycott stores that refused to hire African American workers.  Shabazz graduated from Northern High School in Detroit in 1952 and enrolled in Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where she began studying elementary education.  She switched her major to nursing after months of working the front desk on the campus hospital.  In 1953 Sandlin left Tuskegee and enrolled at Brooklyn State College of Nursing in New York City.  She earned her undergraduate degree three years later in 1956. That same year, after attending many lectures of Muslim minister Malcolm X (formerly Malcolm Little), Betty Sandlin joined the Nation of Islam.  She became Sister Betty X and for the first time began to publicly acknowledge racism in America.  In January 1958 Malcolm and Betty married when Betty was twenty-three years old.  Their Arabic name was Shabazz. Betty Shabazz gave birth to daughters Attallah, Qubilah, Ilyasah, and Gamilah. Shortly after Malcolm's assassination in 1965, their twins Malikah and Malaak were born.  Shabazz raised her six girls on her own, always trying to stay out of the media spotlight. She wanted her daughters to have a normal home life and full

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Advertisement from Souvenir program : eighth annual trade exhibit : June 6 to 12, 1938, Forest Club, Hastings and Forest : business and professional directory / sponsored by Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Title from cover. Includes history of the Association and Housewives League of Detroit, advertisements and business directory arranged by type of business.

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Booker T. Washington Trade Association : program and business directory : Detroit, Michigan, 1936 / Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Title from cover. Includes list of businesses, arranged by topic, declaration of principles, program and list of officers.

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Membership pin for the Housewives League of Detroit Institute. The pin has a dark yellow background with "Housewives League Detroit Member" printed in black inside of a double circle border. The card is printed with "Housewives League Institute, YWCA, Feb. 22 1950" on the front. A blue ribbon and a yellow ribbon are affixed to the back of the card.

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Celebrate National Hat Day! (January 15th)

View of 8 members of the Housewives League of Detroit. Each woman is wearing a decorative hat; several have corsages.  Embossed in the lower right corner: "Modernistic Studio, 3134 Hastings-Detroit." Handwritten on back: "D/Orgs.-Housewives League of Detroit; 1. Helen Malloy; 2.; 4. Rosa Gragg; 5. Fannie B. Peck; Violet Lewis; Christine Fuqua."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Program printed with black ink on off-white paper. Printed on front: "The Booker T. Washington Trade Association and Detroit Housewives' League, Detroit, Michigan 1935." Printed on inside: program listing of activities during the week of the convention including: "Auto Employees Night, Church Night," and "Women's Club Night." "Declaration of Principles" follows program information, and is completed on the back page.

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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View of the first four boosters of the Housewives League of Detroit. The women are wearing winter coats and hats; three of the women are carrying briefcases, one is carrying a purse. Printed on front: "Theus Photo". Handwritten on back: "MS/ Housewives League of Detroit - Box 4; First Housewives League of Detroit Boosters; l. to r. Mrs. Naomi Dean, Mrs. Mary Beasley, Mrs. Gertrude Tolbert Rogers, Mrs. Ethel Hemsley." Photograph taken by Theus Photo Service, 4508 Hastings, Detroit, Mich.

Date: c.1930

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library