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PEABODY - Paula E. Alexander, employee of
Eastman Gelatine Corporation, has been named the fifth recipient of
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esteem in African-American females, including the girls' parents. She is also a member of the National Council of Negro Women. She received her master's degree in Community-Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 1992. She was also involved in designing and implementing interpersonal skills and team building training for girls at the Rottenberg School.
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| "Award to us our proper station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us; withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings, children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands and son, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to your heart, and future generations will revere your memory. All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1, 1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives" by Mary Upton Ferrin. | ||
