Gladys Holmes

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Gladys Holmes
Born1892
Died1969

Gladys Holmes (1892 - 1969) was a women's rights and education activist in Boston.

Holmes was a Radcliffe graduate. [1] She was the former president of the League of Women for Community Service. [2] [3] Holmes advanced literacy during her leadership of the home. [4] She was also a former president of the Massachusetts State Union of Women's Clubs. [5] Holmes was the chairman of the National Convention Committee at the fourth convention of the National Association of Colored Women. [6]

Holmes was a Stay Out By Roxbury education activist, part of the Stay Out for Freedom boycott to rase awareness of de facto segregation in Boston Public Schools. [7] She worked on the Stay Out for Freedom Day alongside Roy Wilkins, the national Executive Secretary of the NAACP; Gordon Carey of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Rev. O. Karl Olander, New England Synod President, Lutheran Church in America, and Rev. Este Clair Kirton. [7]

In 2023, she was recognized as one of "Boston’s most admired, beloved, and successful Black Women leaders" by the Black Women Lead project. [8] [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ Welts Kaufman, Polly; Gilbran, Jean; McDowell, Sylvia, eds. (2006). Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History. Boston Women's Heritage Trail. ISBN   9781933212401.
  2. ↑ "The League of Women for Community Service". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
  3. ↑ "Gladys Holmes". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
  4. ↑ "Gaskin: Hub history education must include Black women". Boston Herald. 2025-03-31. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
  5. ↑ Massachusetts Union of Women's Clubs, including Council of Elders program of fund-raising dinner dance, Boston, 1978 and convention program, 1979. ProQuest. January 1, 1978 – December 31, 1979.
  6. ↑ NACW Convention Program, 1939, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs Records, 1895-1992. ProQuest. January 1, 1939.
  7. 1 2 WGBH Educational Foundation, "Stay Out For Freedom; Boycott Report", Stay Out For Freedom, WGBH Educational Foundation, retrieved 2025-08-14
  8. ↑ "Black Women Lead". Greater Grove Hall Main Streets. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  9. ↑ Sullivan, Mike (2023-10-04). "Portraits along Blue Hill Avenue honor Boston's Black women leaders". CBS Boston. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  10. ↑ Gaskin, Ed (10 April 2025). Black Women Lead: Boston's Most Admired, Beloved, and Iconic Leaders, 1700 - Present. Independently published. ISBN   979-8317465209.
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