| 词条 | Belle Kearney |
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|image =Belle Kearney - Mississippi State Senator.jpg | name=Belle Kearney | image name= | state_senate=Mississippi | state=Mississippi | district=18th | term=1924 - 1932 | preceded= | succeeded= | party=Democratic | birth_date={{birth date|1863|3|6}} | birth_place=Flora, Mississippi | death_date={{death date and age|1939|2|27|1863|3|6}} | death_place=Jackson, Mississippi | alma_mater= | occupation= | residence= | religion=Methodist |}}Carrie Belle Kearney (March 6, 1863 - February 27, 1939) was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, white supremacist, and the first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate.[1] Early lifeKearney was born on her family's plantation in Flora, Mississippi. Her father, Walter Guston Kearney, was a successful slave-owning planter who suffered significant financial losses after the Civil War.[2] Belle Kearney attended Canton Young Ladies' Academy, but was forced to leave due to the cost of tuition. She educated herself, and opened a private school in a spare bedroom of the plantation house. She later began teaching in the public school system.[2] Activism, beliefs and worksKearney was a Methodist, and a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She was also active in the American suffrage movement, and was hired as a speaker and lobbyist by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In this role, she traveled throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and was a respected orator.[1] Kearney was a white supremacist, and used her public speaking events to advocate her racial views. While delivering the keynote address at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in 1903, she said that women's suffrage would bring about "immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained".[2] Kearney authored two novels: A Slaveholder's Daughter (1900), and Conqueror or Conquered: Or, the Sex Challenge Answered (1921). She also edited Mama Flower (1918).[3] Elected officeIn 1922, Kearney ran unsuccessfully for the office of U.S. Senator from Mississippi. In 1924, she was elected to the Mississippi State Senate as a Democrat representing Madison County, the first woman in Mississippi to hold that office.[1] DeathKearney never married and had no children. She spent her last years on the family plantation in Flora, and died of cancer in 1939 at the home of a friend in Jackson. She was buried in Kearney Cemetery near the family plantation.[3] See also
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web | title = Carrie Belle Kearney | publisher = National Women's History Museum | url = http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/carrie-belle-kearney/ | accessdate = May 2014}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kearney, Belle}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web | last1 = Lemon | first1 = Armistead | last2 = Henderson | first2 = Harris | title = Belle Kearney, 1863-1939 | publisher = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | url = http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/kearney/summary.html | accessdate = May 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web | last = Gandy | first = Sheena | title = Biography of Belle Kearney | publisher = Mississippi Writers & Musicians | date = January 2008 | url = http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/belle-kearney.html}} 11 : 1863 births|1939 deaths|People from Flora, Mississippi|American Methodists|Mississippi Democrats|Mississippi state senators|American suffragists|American temperance activists|20th-century American politicians|20th-century American women politicians|Woman's Christian Temperance Union people |
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