Sandra M O’donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra M O’donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra M |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donnell |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONNELL S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roosevelt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Right to Work Is the Right to Live”: The Social Work and Political and Civic Activism of Irene McCoy Gaines
Irene McCoy Gaines was an African‐American social worker, civic leader, and political activist whose career spanned both world wars and beyond. This article places her career in the contexts of the community and the profession in which she practiced and chronicles her work to improve employment, housing, education, and social opportunity for African Americans. Gaines’s papers provide strong evidence that Progressivism did not die with the Progres…
Transformative Community Practice: Building a Model for Developing Extremely Low Income African-American Communities
The authors examine how well models and concepts of community practice fit their practice in an extremely low income urban African-American community. They describe the evolution of their agency's response to community disinvestment over the past 30 years. That response has been to create indigenous African-centered organizations that can transform how people see themselves, the community, and their futures. Early childhood education, social serv…
Urban African American Community Development in the Progressive Era
This article describes community development efforts in urban African American communities in the Progressive era. It features the work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who mobilized people to protest for equal rights and justice, and Lugenia Burns Hope, whose Neighborhood Union was a model of organization for social support and policy change. Other efforts for ''social betterment'' and ''social protest'' are described. African American community activis…
Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929 . Richard A. Meckel
Urban African American Community Development in the Progressive Era
This article describes community development efforts in urban African American communities in the Progressive era. It features the work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who mobilized people to protest for equal rights and justice, and Lugenia Burns Hope, whose Neighborhood Union was a model of organization for social support and policy change. Other efforts for ''social betterment'' and ''social protest'' are described. African American community activis…
Transformative Community Practice: Building a Model for Developing Extremely Low Income African-American Communities
The authors examine how well models and concepts of community practice fit their practice in an extremely low income urban African-American community. They describe the evolution of their agency's response to community disinvestment over the past 30 years. That response has been to create indigenous African-centered organizations that can transform how people see themselves, the community, and their futures. Early childhood education, social serv…
The Right to Work Is the Right to Live”: The Social Work and Political and Civic Activism of Irene McCoy Gaines
Irene McCoy Gaines was an African‐American social worker, civic leader, and political activist whose career spanned both world wars and beyond. This article places her career in the contexts of the community and the profession in which she practiced and chronicles her work to improve employment, housing, education, and social opportunity for African Americans. Gaines’s papers provide strong evidence that Progressivism did not die with the Progres…
Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929 . Richard A. Meckel
Urban African American Community Development in the Progressive Era
This article describes community development efforts in urban African American communities in the Progressive era. It features the work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who mobilized people to protest for equal rights and justice, and Lugenia Burns Hope, whose Neighborhood Union was a model of organization for social support and policy change. Other efforts for ''social betterment'' and ''social protest'' are described. African American community activis…
Transformative Community Practice: Building a Model for Developing Extremely Low Income African-American Communities
The authors examine how well models and concepts of community practice fit their practice in an extremely low income urban African-American community. They describe the evolution of their agency's response to community disinvestment over the past 30 years. That response has been to create indigenous African-centered organizations that can transform how people see themselves, the community, and their futures. Early childhood education, social serv…
The Right to Work Is the Right to Live”: The Social Work and Political and Civic Activism of Irene McCoy Gaines
Irene McCoy Gaines was an African‐American social worker, civic leader, and political activist whose career spanned both world wars and beyond. This article places her career in the contexts of the community and the profession in which she practiced and chronicles her work to improve employment, housing, education, and social opportunity for African Americans. Gaines’s papers provide strong evidence that Progressivism did not die with the Progres…
Political science (4 works) · Community organizing (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African american (2 works) · Community building (2 works) · Community development (2 works) · Community organization (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Law (2 works)