COMPOUND OBJECT (4 Items)
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford Item Info
- Title:
- Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford
- Creator:
- Gilmore, Helen I.
- Date Created:
- 1993
- Description:
- Community leader Helen Stafford shares her life story, describing her childhood in Kansas and her experiences as a young African-American woman in Depression-era Tacoma. Reflecting back on over sixty years of civic involvement, Stafford comments on her work with the Matron's Club, the NAACP, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the Washington Public Employees Association labor union. She also provides numerous insights into the changing face of Tacoma after World War II.
- Subjects:
- Activists Tacoma African Americans Women Civic leaders 19th century 20th century 21st century
- Location:
- Downtown
- Latitude:
- 47.246605
- Longitude:
- -122.436963
- Source:
- Tacoma Community History Project
- Type:
- record
- Format:
- compound_object
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford", Tacoma Community History Project, University of Washington Tacoma Library
- Reference Link:
- https://erika-b.github.io/tchp/items/chp199303.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Individuals may use project materials for scholarly or research purposes, according to the provisions of fair use, but reproducing, publishing, or broadcasting any oral history project materials requires permission. For more information, see http://content.lib.washington.edu/tacomacommweb/using-projects.html
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/