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Women's Social Service Association
{{Expand Swedish, date=July 2023, Women's Social Service Association Women's Social Service Association (WSSA), also known as Women's Social Service Club, Women's Social Services Organisation or Women's Social Welfare Society, was a women's organization in Jamaica, founded in 1918. It was named Women's Social Service Association (WSSA) in 1925. It is known for the role it played during the campaign for women's suffrage on Jamaica. The WSSA was co-founded by Nellie Latrielle and Judith DeCordova. When Britain introduced women's suffrage in 1918, women's activists on Jamaica launched a campaign to extend this reform to Jamaica, which was a British colony at the time. White upper class wives of the British officials on Jamaica advocated for the introduction of women's suffrage with reference to Jamaican women's contribution to the war effort during the world war; they had the support of the establishment and they advocated for women to be given the same voting rights as men, which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous English-speaking world, Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish Empire, Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellie Latrielle
Nellie Latrielle was a Jamaican political activist and feminist. She was a pioneer within the struggle for women's suffrage in Jamaica. She was born in England and settled in Jamaica. She was a leading figure in the Child Welfare Association, as well as in the struggle against prostitution and the control of venereal illness on Jamaica. In 1918 she became the co-founder and first president of the Women's Social Service Association {{Expand Swedish, date=July 2023, Women's Social Service Association Women's Social Service Association (WSSA), also known as Women's Social Service Club, Women's Social Services Organisation or Women's Social Welfare Society, was a women's organiz ... (WSSA). She and Judith DeCordova were leading figures in the campaign conducted by the WSSA to introduce women's suffrage, which had been introduced in Britain in 1918, also on Jamaica, a campaign which succeeded in 1919.Coore-Hall, J. A. (2020). Feminist Advocacy and Activism in State Institutions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith DeCordova
Judith DeCordova (1877–1967) was a Jamaican political activist and feminist. She was a pioneer within the struggle for women's suffrage in Jamaica. She belonged to a Jewish upper-class family of Jamaica. She was a pioneer within infant welfare on Jamaica and president of the Child Welfare Association. In 1918 she became the co-founder and later the second president of the Women's Social Service Association (WSSA). She and Nellie Latrielle Nellie Latrielle was a Jamaican political activist and feminist. She was a pioneer within the struggle for women's suffrage in Jamaica. She was born in England and settled in Jamaica. She was a leading figure in the Child Welfare Association, a ... were leading figures in the campaign conducted by the WSSA to introduce women's suffrage, which had been introduced in Britain in 1918, also on Jamaica, a campaign which succeeded in 1919. In 1936, she founded and became the first president of the Jamaica Women's League.Nijeholt, G. A., W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris Knibb
Mary Morris Knibb, MBE (28 February 1886 – 21 September 1964) was a Jamaican teacher, social reformer and philanthropist. She founded the Morris Knibb Preparatory School and donated a building which is used as the headquarters of the Moravian Church in Jamaica as well as land for construction of a community center. Morris Knibb was a women's rights activist and the first elected councilwomen in Jamaica. She was the first woman to vie for a seat in the House when Universal Suffrage was granted to all Jamaicans. Early life Mary Lenora Morris "Nora" was born on 28 February 1886 in Carmel, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. In 1893, Morris began teaching as an assistant teacher at the Moravian Day School, in the customary pupil-teacher system of recruitment. Throughout the Caribbean prior to the 1950s, the most promising primary students, began working as assistant teachers to offset the cost of their further education. In some cases, they became full teachers upon passing an examinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica Women's League
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Santiago, until 1655, when England (part of what would become the Kingdom of Great Britain) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
