Belonging to Ourselves

October 13, 2019 at 10:30 am

We think of belonging as being about how we are in community. True, and yet, the first step is about being true to ourselves

This Day in Unitarian Universalist History April 19
1889 – Emily Taft Douglas was born in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she became statewide organizer for the Illinois League of Women Voters. She married Paul Howard Douglas, a senator from Illinois (1948-1967) and was elected to the U.S. House of representatives herself in 1944. Her publications include Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future (1970). Douglas was president of the Unitarian Women’s Alliance, moderator of the American Unitarian Association, and trustee of Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Read more about Emily Taft Douglas at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org - the digital library of Unitarian Universalism. [Please note that some sources list Douglas’s birthdate as April 10th and others give the 19th; for the purposes of this calendar’s consistency, we will leave her on the 19th. -Director.] The post April 19 first appeared on Harvard Square Library.

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