Edith Green
Edith Green | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon's 3rd district | |
In office January 3, 1955 – December 31, 1974 | |
Preceded by | Homer D. Angell |
Succeeded by | Robert B. Duncan |
Personal details | |
Born | Edith Louise Starrett January 17, 1910 Trent, South Dakota, U.S. |
Died | April 21, 1987 Tualatin, Oregon, U.S. | (aged 77)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Arthur Green (1933–1963) |
Education | Willamette University University of Oregon (BA) Stanford University |
Edith Louise Starrett Green (January 17, 1910 – April 21, 1987) was an American politician and educator from
Green advanced women's issues, education, library support and social reform; she played an instrumental role in passing the 1972 Equal Opportunity in Education Act, better known as Title IX.[1]
Early life
She was born Edith Louise Starrett in Trent, South Dakota. Her family moved to Oregon in 1916, where she attended schools in Salem, graduating from Salem High School (Now known as North Salem High School) in 1927.[2] Then attending Willamette University from 1927 to 1929. She worked as a schoolteacher and advocate of education in 1929, married Arthur N. Green in 1930, and left school to begin a family.[3]
In 1939 Green went back to school and earned a
She was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Political career
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Throughout her ten terms as a representative, Green focused on women's issues, education, and social reform. In 1955 Green proposed the
Green also provided significant input to the
Green helped to develop the legislation that was to become Title IX, now-called the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.[1] The law prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. In the late 1960s, after noting that while programs existed to keep boys in school but no similar programs existed for girls, Green sought to correct this inequality.[8] She helped to introduce a higher education bill that contained provisions regarding gender equity in education.[9] The hearings on this bill, working together with fellow Representative Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh, eventually resulted in the passage of Title IX in 1972.[10] In 1964, she was the only woman in the House of Representatives who voted against including sex as a protected class in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the amendment to do so had been introduced by Virginia Congressman Howard W. Smith in an attempt to sink the bill. In order not to endanger passage of the bill prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin, Green was willing to forego the inclusion of sex, noting "For every discrimination that I have suffered, the Negro woman has suffered ten times that amount of discrimination."[11][12]
Senator Mark Hatfield called Green "the most powerful woman ever to serve in the Congress".[13] Adlai Stevenson selected her to second his nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, John F. Kennedy also selected her to second his nomination at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, and she headed the state primary campaigns for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson.[3]
Green herself had been considered a contender for
After Congress
Green decided not to seek an eleventh term in
Edith Green died on April 21, 1987, in Tualatin and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Corbett, Oregon.[4] The Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in downtown Portland is named in her honor along with Congressman Wendell Wyatt, alongside whom she served during part of her tenure in Congress.[17]
See also
References
- ^ OCLC 1126670619.)
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- ^ a b c d e "Edith Starrett Green". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
- ^ a b "Green, Edith Starrett". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
- JSTOR 442815.
- ^ Casey, G. M. (Ed.) (1975). Federal aid to libraries: Its history, impact, future. Library Trends, 24 (July).
- ^ "Edith Starrett Green, Representative, 1955–1974, Democrat from Oregon". Member Profiles. Women in Congress. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0689859571.
- ^ United States Department of Education (June 1997). "Title IX: 25 Years of Progress". Retrieved 2007-01-05.
- ^ "How Title IX was won: the long road to victory". Women's Health Magazine. July–August 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
- ^ O'Dea, S. (2006). Green, Edith Louise Starrett (1910–1987). In From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 288–289). Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=tamp44898&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX2867900341&asid=f3da1c28db5d9069cdb42ea28a55b3ba
- ISBN 978-0679302537.
- ^ "American Memory". Women in Congress. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
- ^ "Mark's Other Woman". Time. November 5, 1965. Archived from the original on February 3, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis (April 23, 1987). "Ex-Rep. Edith Green, 77, Is Dead; Early Opponent of the Vietnam War". The New York Times. pp. D31. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
- ^ Peters, Gerhard. "Ronald Reagan: Appointment of the Membership and Principal Officials of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
- ^ Esteve, Harry (August 24, 2009). "Portland federal building due for big green makeover". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
External links
- Cogswell, Philip. "Edith Green". The Oregon Encyclopedia.
- Edith Green at Find a Grave