That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families’ histories
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI would argue, but not always out there where they’re counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWhat first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERYou have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERAnd how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWomen have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere is always more to tell.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWhen we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIt is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIf you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI didn’t study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERTo believe that women’s contributions have been less important than men’s contributions because women are usually less public people.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERFor all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women’s lives. Women’s words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.
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