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Mary Wilhelmine Williams
Teacher, Historian, Pacifist, Feminist
Born May 14, 1878 in Stanislaus County, California
Died March 10, 1944
Biographical Article by Rhoda M. Dorsey
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams: Teacher, Historian, Pacifist, Feminist
- Notable American Women 1607-1950
...As a teacher Miss Williams is remembered for her complete and outspoken honesty, her exacting standards of scholarship, her insistence upon absolute mastery of subject matter, and her encouragement of students in carrying out independent research. At Goucher she added to the number of courses in American and Latin American history and in 1916-17 organized the first collegiate course in Canadian history given in the United States. A Viking in appearance, endowed with a marked sense of humor as well as unusual strength of character, she was a staunch feminist. Her courses included a history of the struggle for women's rights, from which grew the articles on several leaders of the movement that she contributed to the Dictionary of American Biography...
Biographical Article by Sueann Caulfield
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams
- American National Biography
...Williams was active in the feminist and pacifist movements and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and founder of the California chapter of the National Woman's party as well as editor from 1935 to 1936 of Equal Rights, an independent feminist weekly. She introduced a course at Goucher College on women in U.S. society in 1922 and successfully defended the relevance of the topic to the study of history when the course came under attack in the early 1930s. Her extensive travels included a tour of Latin America taken in 1926-1927 to survey educational opportunities for women in Latin America and to identify candidates for the American Association of University Women's Latin American fellowships. Upon her return Williams published accounts of her findings on education and civil rights for women and on women's philanthropic activities. Like most of her contemporaries, she believed that elites made history, and her research and observations focused mostly on prominent men or on activities of upper-class, mostly white senoras (using the Spanish term) in charity organizations and the woman suffrage movement. Unlike most of her contemporaries, Williams recognized the relevance of women's position in society to general social and political history. Herself a unitarian, she placed much of the blame for women's oppression in Latin America on the Catholic church...
Guide to the Mary Wilhelmine Williams Papers
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams Papers, 1911-1943
- Stanford University
Letters, diaries, clippings, and manuscripts pertaining to Dr. Williams' interest in the Kensington Stone, education in Latin America, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Dom Pedro of Brazil. Includes manuscripts of Dr. Williams' writings as well as reviews.
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