Taylor Award (Mamie had been a teenage suffragist in the 19th century). Lucy founded the Georgia Coalition for the Rights of Women and authored it's Georgia Women's Bill of Rights on July 4, 1996.įor her work on behalf of the rights of women and as a South Georgia educator in segregated school systems, Lucy Draper was honored by the ACLU of Georgia with their 1980 Bill of Rights Award and was the first recipient of the Georgia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club's Mamie K. From 1978 to 1982, she served as W.E.A.L.'s Southeast Regional ERA Coordinator and President of Georgia W.E.A.L. focusing on ratification of the Federal Equal Rights Amendment and women's rights.ĭuring the early 1980's, she was one of the founding members of the Georgia Women's Political Caucus and, in the 1990's, the Georgia Win List, and she was a co-founder and President of the Democratic Women's Council working within the Georgia Democratic Party to elect pro-choice men and women. Leavenworth, Kansas, Lucy founded and served as the President of Kansas W.E.A.L. In 1973, when her husband's military career took her to West Point, Lucy founded and served as the first President of West Point NOW, focusing on the admission of women to the U.S. Lucy Draper has founded and been involved with a number of civil rights and women's rights organizations on the local, state, and national levels for more than five decades. The eldest of four daughters and the first in her mother's family to graduate from college, she is a UGA graduate and has earned advanced degrees in History, Education, and Law which she applied to a half century of activism on behalf of educational, economic, and legal equity for women and educational reforms for children. Lucy Hargrett Draper was born by lamplight on her Civil War maternal great-grandparent's South Georgia Wayne County farm in 1941. Title: Lucy Hargrett Draper British and American women's history collectionĤ2 boxes, 4 oversized boxes, 7 oversized folders Sources: JW.Lucy Hargrett Draper British and American women's history collection Visit JW.org to download this new songbook in MP3, PDF or EPUB format."Sing Out Joyfully" To Jehovah 15 Categories and Song Numbers.Update : The new songbook arrived! Check these updates: We are also hoping for PDF and EPUB formats. On Monday, October 3, 2016, this new songbook will become available for download on our official website, JW.org.įor sure, changes to the MP3 files will be made so new download links will be provided. The "Sing Out Joyfully" To Jehovah songbook will be used starting the week of January 7, 2017. "Sing Out Joyfully" To Jehovah Songbook Cover This new songbook will replace the current one - Sing to Jehovah (2009).Ĭhanges made on this new songbook includes rewording of lyrics, changing of subjects, rephrasing, less direct counsel within the lyrics and numbering by subject matter in 15 categories. The songbook title was "Sing Out Joyfully" To Jehovah and will consist a total of 154 Kingdom songs. During the 2016 JW Annual Meeting which was held on October 1, a new songbook for Jehovah's Witnesses was released.
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