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{"value"=>"circa 1960s-1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1960/1977", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
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{"value"=>"Olivia Pearl Stokes audio collection"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Olivia Pearl Stokes (January 11, 1916 - May 24, 2002) was a religious educator, ordained Baptist minister, author, administrator, and civil rights activist. The collection consists of twenty-five audio recordings primarily of Stokes reading excerpts from her unpublished manuscript \"Women of Africa,\" as well as notes for articles, and collected recordings."}
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{"value"=>"Stokes, Olivia Pearl, 1916-", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in Middlesex, North Carolina, Olivia Pearl Stokes (January 11, 1916 - May 24, 2002) was a religious educator, ordained Baptist minister, author, administrator, and civil rights activist. She received her BS in education in 1947, and MA in religious education in 1948, both from New York University. In 1952, she completed her EdD at Columbia University's Teachers College, becoming the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in religious education. Stokes was ordained in 1966 through the American Baptist Churches, USA.</p> <p>Stokes began her professional career as the associate director of the Baptist Educational Center in Harlem from 1941 to 1952. From 1953 to 1966, she served as director of the Department of Religious Education for the Massachusetts Council of Churches. She subsequently worked for the National Council of Churches serving as the associate director of urban education in the Department of Educational Development from 1966 to 1973, and as a consultant to the Division of Education and Ministry from 1975 to 1976. Stokes also taught at Lehman College (City University of New York) and New York University. In addition, she served as an educational consultant to various theological schools, including Drew, Princeton, Colgate-Rochester, and Andover Newton. In 1979, Stokes founded the Greater Harlem Comprehensive Guidance Center, serving as its first executive director from 1979 to 1990.</p> <p>Stokes has written extensively on topics related to religious education, the experiences and contributions of Black women, and African societies and cultures. She published two children's books, <span class=\"title\">Why the Spider Lives in Corners: African Facts and Fun</span> (1971) and <span class=\"title\">The Beauty of Being Black: Folktales, Poems and Art from Africa</span> (1971). She also authored two unpublished manuscripts, \"Women of Africa,\" and a Black hymnal developed with music educator Isaiah D. Ruffin.</p> <p>Stokes's numerous honors and awards include the National Bethune Achievement Award from the National Council of Negro Women (1976), the International Award from the Business and Professional Women's Association (1979), an honorary doctorate of humane letters awarded by Marymount Manhattan College (1987), and special recognition for outstanding achievement by the American Baptist Black Church Education Conference (1994).</p> <p>Stokes died in May 2002, at the age of eighty-six.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of twenty-five audio recordings primarily of Stokes reading excerpts from her unpublished manuscript \"Women of Africa,\" as well as notes for articles, and collected recordings. The manuscript documents the lives of prominent African and African American women living in Africa and contributing to the social and political development of the continent. Many of the original formats are grooved discs, containing two parts, one for each side of the disc. The sequence of sides is unclear for many of the recordings. Item titles are devised from the content of the recordings. Square brackets indicate partial information or unclear spelling.</p> <p>Brief biographies of the women discussed in this collection as part of the \"Women of Africa\" manuscript are included below. These biographies represent a few of the many roles the women held in their lifetimes. When biographical dates are available, they are included. Unless otherwise noted, the women were primarily active in their country of origin.</p> <ul class=\"deflist\"> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Abayomi, Oyinkansola (March 6, 1897 - March 19, 1990):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nigerian nationalist and feminist. Abayomi was the head of the Nigerian Girl Guides from 1931 until her retirement in 1982, and founded the Nigerian Women's Party in 1944.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Ademola, Kofoworola Aina (May 21, 1913 - May 15, 2002):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nigerian educationist and writer. Ademola was the first Black African woman to earn a degree from Oxford University in 1935, and the first president of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1958 to 1964.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Amarteifio, Evelyn Mansa (1916 - 1997):</span> <span class=\"item\">Ghanaian women's organiser. Amarteifio co-founded the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. In 1953, she established the National Federation of Gold Coast Women (NFGCW).</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Awoliyi, Elizabeth Abimbola (1910 - September 14, 1971):</span> <span class=\"item\">First Nigerian woman physician practitioner in the country. Awoliyi served as the second president of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1964 until her death in 1971.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Azikiwe, Flora Ogbenyeanu Ogoegbunam (August 7, 1917 - August 22, 1983):</span> <span class=\"item\">Inaugural First Lady of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966 as the wife of President Nnamdi Azikiwe. Azikwe was a member of the Eastern Working Committee of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (later changed to the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens) (NCNC), and co-founder of the women's wing of the NCNC in 1956, serving as its first president.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Brooks, Angie Elizabeth (August 24, 1928 - September 9, 2007):</span> <span class=\"item\">Liberian diplomat and jurist. Brooks was the first woman to serve as the assistant attorney-general of Liberia from 1953 to 1958. In 1958, she was appointed assistant secretary of state of Liberia. Brooks was the first African woman, and second woman overall, to serve as the president of the United Nations General Assembly, from 1969 to 1970.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Christian, Angela (1916 - 2002):</span> <span class=\"item\">Ghanaian diplomat and foreign service officer.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Ekpo, Margaret (July 27, 1914 - September 21, 2006):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nigerian women's rights activist and pioneering woman politician. Ekpo was among the few women delegates to the Constitutional Conferences held in London from 1953 to 1958. She co-founded the women's wing of the NCNC in 1956, and served as the second president from 1960 to 1962. She was a member of the Aba Market Women's Association and the Eastern House of Assembly.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">El-ghamrawy, Nafessa (1918 - 2001):</span> <span class=\"item\">Pioneering figure in Egyptian women's sports and academia, and the second woman pilot in the country. El-ghamrawy was the first woman to serve as the dean of the Faculty of Physical Education for Girls in Egypt.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Gcabashe, Dolana Beatrice (d. 1970):</span> <span class=\"item\">South African medical pioneer known for being the first African registered nurse in Natal to successfully obtain a joint general nursing and midwifery registration.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Gcabashe, Hilda Luthuli (also known as Thandeka Luthuli Gcabashe, b. 1934 -):</span> <span class=\"item\">South African nurse and anti-apartheid activist.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Gecau, Margaret Karioki:</span> <span class=\"item\">First Kenyan to qualify as a public health nurse.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Houphouët-Boigny, Marie-Thérèse (b. September 17, 1930):</span> <span class=\"item\">Inaugural First Lady of Ivory Coast from 1960 to 1993 as the wife of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">[Hussein, Madame Ahmed]:</span> <span class=\"item\">Wife of Ahmed Hussein, Egypt's minister of social affairs from 1950 to 1952. She was an active worker for social reforms in the country.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Ibiam, Eudora Olayinka (1906 - 1972):</span> <span class=\"item\">Pioneering Nigerian educator, dispenser, midwife, and missionary. Ibiam was the First Lady of Eastern Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 as the wife of Eastern Nigeria Governor Akanu Ibiam.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">[Ibrahim, Miss Mary]:</span> <span class=\"item\">Of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), founder of a school in an unidentified village in Tanganyika.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Imru, Judith (Yodit) (d. 2007):</span> <span class=\"item\">Ethiopian diplomat and one of the founders of the Pan African Women's Organisation. Imru served as the deputy minister of foreign affairs for Ethiopia from 1971 to 1975; and was the country's first woman ambassador, as ambassador to the Scandinavian countries from 1975 to 1977.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Jiagge, Annie Ruth (October 7, 1918 - June 12, 1996):</span> <span class=\"item\">Ghanaian lawyer, judge, and women's rights activist. Jiagge was the first woman in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations to become a judge, and co-founded the YWCA in the Gold Coast (now Ghana).</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Kiano, Ernestine (1925 - 2010):</span> <span class=\"item\">Born in the United States, Kiano was the wife of Julius G. Kiano, Kenyan minister of commerce and industry from 1963 to 1966. In 1963, she became the first Black woman elected to a leadership position at the YWCA in Kenya. Kiano lived in Kenya from 1956 to 1966, when she was deported following marital issues.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Kisosonkole, Damalie (1929 - July 12, 2010):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nnabagerekka (Queen consort) of the Kingdom of Buganda (Bantu kingdom within Uganda), as the first wife of Mutesa II of Buganda. She was Uganda's inaugural First Lady when Mutesa II served as president from 1962 to 1966.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Kisosonkole, Pumla Ellen Ngozwana (1911 - 1997):</span> <span class=\"item\">South Africa-born Ugandan politician and women's rights activist. In 1957, Pumla became the first African to serve as president of the Uganda Council of Women, a position she held until 1961. From 1959 to 1962 she was president of the International Council of Women. In 1963, Prime Minister Milton Obote appointed her to Uganda's delegation to the United Nations.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Konie, Gwendoline (October 9, 1938 - March 14, 2009):</span> <span class=\"item\">Zambian poet, diplomat, and politician. Konie served as ambassador to Scandinavia from 1974 to 1977, and Germany from 1992 to 1997; and permanent representative to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Martei, Margaret Selina:</span> <span class=\"item\">Ghanaian politician. Martei was a member of parliament for the Asamankese constituency from 1965 to 1966. She also served as the general secretary of the National Council of Ghana Women.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">[Mattie, Marie]:</span> <span class=\"item\">Physician and church leader in Leopoldville (now Congo).</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">[Mhlanga, Elsie]:</span> <span class=\"item\">A leader in the Christian community of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and wife of Gideon Mhlanga, member of the African Teachers Association.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Mokelu, Janet Nwadiogo (February 7, 1910 - March 31, 2003):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nigerian politician, philanthropist, nurse, teacher, headmistress, and businesswoman. Mokelu served as the general secretary of the NCNC in 1944, and was a onetime member of both the Eastern House of Assembly and the Eastern House of Chiefs in Nigeria.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Moore, Jaiyeola Aduke (also known as Jaiyeola Aduke Alakija, March 1921 - March 2016):</span> <span class=\"item\">Nigerian welfare officer, lawyer, and ambassador to Sweden from 1984 to 1987. Moore served as the executive assistant to the general manager of Mobil Oil, and legal advisor to Mobil Oil Nigeria.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">M'Timkulu, Clytie (d. 1987):</span> <span class=\"item\">Batswana (major Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa) princess, ecumenical leader, and community advocate. M'Timkulu was the wife of Donald G. S. M'Timkulu, a pioneer of Black higher education and one of the earliest Black South Africans to attend Yale Graduate School.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Nambooze, Josephine (b. 1930):</span> <span class=\"item\">Ugandan physician, public health specialist, academic, and medical researcher. Nambooze was the first East African woman to qualify as a physician circa 1959. She is an emeritus professor of public health at Makerere University School of Public Health.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Nyerere, Maria (b. December 31, 1930):</span> <span class=\"item\">Tanzanian educator and the country's inaugural First Lady from 1964 to 1985 as the wife of President Julius Nyerere.</span></li> <li class=\"defitem\"> <span class=\"label\">Scarbrough, Ellen Mills (November 13, 1900 - March 1983):</span> <span class=\"item\">Liberian educator and politician. Scarbrough was elected to the House of Representatives of Liberia in 1959, becoming the first woman in the legislature.</span></li></ul>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Olivia Pearl Stokes audio collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188121#c1927835'>SERIES I: Women of Africa AND OTHER WRITINGS</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1960s-1965</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>22 audio_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains twenty-two audio recordings, arranged chronologically. Twenty-one recordings are of Stokes reading excerpts from her unpublished manuscript \"Women of Africa,\" including profiles of prominent African and African American women in Africa, and discussions on marriage customs in Africa. One recording is Stokes reading notes about homes and Christianity in Africa, likely for articles she was writing. Item titles are devised from the content of the recordings.</p> <p>\"Women of Africa\" documents the lives of prominent African and African American women living in Africa. Stokes began writing the manuscript during the period of national liberation for many African countries. It was intended to educate Americans about the role of African women and their organizations in the process of rebuilding post-colonial Africa. A short biography of each woman is also included in the items' descriptions. A few women share the same last names, and in these cases they are referred to by their first names. Some women have multiple profiles.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188121#c1927862'>SERIES II: COLLECTED</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1971-1977</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3 audio_recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series consists of three audio recordings arranged alphabetically. Two of the recordings accompany educational filmstrips related to the Caribbean and African cultures and mission work. The filmstrips are not included in the collection. The third recording is a single by Canadian pop and rock band Skylark.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Olivia Pearl Stokes, 1991 and 1994.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Olivia Pearl Stokes papers, Sc MG 432.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Art and Artifacts Division for the artworks.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Christopher Arena</span>, <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>, and <span class=\"name\">Virginia Mullaney</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2026</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Olivia Pearl Stokes papers : additions, Sc MG 351.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Olivia Pearl Stokes portrait collection, Sc Photo Stokes, Olivia Pearl.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>For an oral history interview with Olivia Pearl Stokes see the Abyssinian Baptist Church Oral History Project audio collection, Sc MIRS Abyssinian 1995-23.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Abyssinian Baptist Church Oral History Project, Sc MG 671.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
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1960
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1960
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1977
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1960
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1977
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{"value"=>"Olivia Pearl Stokes audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}