Faith Holsaert

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Faith Holsaert
Born1943 (age 81–82)
New York City, U.S.
Occupations
  • Educator
  • activist

Faith Holsaert (born 1943) is an American educator and activist during the civil rights movement.

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Holsaert was born in New York City in 1943. [1] She was raised by her Jewish mother, Eunice Spellman Holsaert, who was divorced, and her female African American music teacher, Charity Abigail Bailey, in the same household, in Greenwich Village. [1] [2] Being brought up in a biracial household, headed by two mother-figures, she was raised in the midst much unrest and disapproval from those around her. [3] She volunteered for the Harlem Brotherhood Group and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a teenager. [1] [2] She matriculated to Barnard University in 1961, when she first participated in a sit-in in Crisfield, Maryland to protest racial segregation. [2] [3] She was arrested at the sit-in. [1] She registered voters in Terrell County, Georgia in 1962. [1] [2] She also volunteered for the Brown Berets. [2] She resides in Durham, North Carolina. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Faith Holsaert". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Friedman, Jordan. "Holsaert started her civil rights activism at early age". USA Today. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 Faith Holsaert, “Resistance U,” Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith Holsaert, et al. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 181-195.


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