Goldie Corash Michaelson Quotes
That’s for old people.
Goldie Corash Michaelson Response when it was suggested that she might try a walker to get around easier She was over 110 years old when she made this statement
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She and many of the other white activists were called “do-gooders” by the Southern authorities of communities which were integration demonstration targets. The term was derogatory in the South, but Mrs. Peabody and others were proud of the term as that was exactly their purpose—to do good. Mrs. Peabody, and the wives of a number of wives of Christian Bishops, black and white, went to a restaurant in St. Augustine and requested service which was contrary to the segregation laws of Florida at the time. The women were arrested. The act of civil disobedience in integrating the restaurant was one act of a planned desegregation strategy worked out with Martin Luther King’s SCLC organization. The mature age of the women and their prominent husbands brought a great deal of newspaper coverage which is just what the demonstrators wanted. The photo is of Mrs. Peabody getting arrested. See {637404} and {637405} for more on this incident.
On July 8, 2015 she died in Worcester, Massachusetts. At 113, She was the oldest living American and one of the oldest people in the world. She was born in 1902 in Czarist Russia, and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was only 4. Her father set up Michelson was one of the few women to receive a college education in the 1920s. She earned her undergraduate degree in sociology in 1924 from Pembroke College, the women’s affiliate of Brown University. She went on to take an advanced degree, a real rarity at the time. She graduated with her Master’s Degree from Clark University in 1936. She worked as a social worker, and became very active inJewish Education. She was mentally alert and lucid even in the years before she did at the age of 113
