Talk:Frances Willard

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Frances Willard Street in Chico, California is named after her. --Greg Bard

Willard Sorority at the Nebraska Wesleyan University Campus in Lincoln, NE is named for her. Alumni Mindy Lubeck (McGrury)

Francis Willard Elementary School in Spokane, Washington is named after her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.114.75.178 (talk) 23:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Southern Segregation, Lynching, Etc.[edit]

I read somewhere that she was a supporter of Jim Crow and lynching, is this true? Stonemason89 (talk) 05:08, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. But she certainly wasn't above using racially charged rhetoric to gain the sympathy and support of southern whites, by playing on their racist fears--i.e. that the emancipated former slaves represented an army of rapists waiting to happen, and must be kept from alcohol at all costs. And playing up these fears was kind of an implicit support of lynching, whether or not she consciously "supported" it, since it reinforced the idea among the people doing the lynching that these fears were justified. Ford MF (talk) 08:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I once taught music at the Frances E. Willard Elementary School built in 1907 in Philadelphia. Joe Maleno —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcjm (talkcontribs) 13:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Methodism[edit]

Previous assertion attempted to attribute Willard's activism to Methodism's emphasis on "home-centered" family unit and esp. the "pious wife and mother." Cite didn't support that. More accurate to say that Methodism always has had a strong social justice and "renewal in the world" component and that activism esp. in mid-19th century was salient in the denomination. So I added a wikilink to the appropriate section of the Methodism article and moved the existing footnote to the middle of the sentence where it supports the assertion about the family's conversion.Ouilmette (talk) 23:21, 23 March 2010 (UTC)Ouilmette[reply]

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The result of the move request was: Moved  — Amakuru (talk) 09:28, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]



Frances Willard (suffragist)Frances Willard – Fairly certain that the women's suffrage activist is the primary topic over Frances Willard (magician), given that the magician seems to not appear almost at all on some third party search engines. If moved, a hatnote should be placed on the suffragist article referring to the magician and the disambiguation page should be deleted since it would contain only two entries with one being at the ambiguous/base title. Steel1943 (talk) 14:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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