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Shamira Gelbman
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Author of The Civil Rights Lobby http://tinyurl.com/32tzxran
Brooklyn in Indiana 🏙️🌽
Poli Sci Prof at Wabash College 🔔
I tweet solely in my own capacity, not on behalf of the College
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Apparently we're promoting our books

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November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Plus a crustless pie, because why not 🤷‍♀️
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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And Thanksgiving kugel #2 👩‍🍳
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Thanksgiving kugel #1 😎

Also, I can't believe I used to make like 25 of these in a day 😳
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This memo is literally 2 pages of complaining that the conference should have been an email 🤣
Page 2 "I have attended many a conference in the Women's Bureau, but I think this is the first conference of this kind that the Bureau has ever arranged - that is a conference where the people were talked at all day without being given an opportunity to either ask questions or make comments."
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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"This meeting should have been an email," but in 1954👀
"I honestly do not feel that it was necessary to call a Conference and get people here from all parts of the country just to hear what all of them have known for years, and even if they didn't know, they could get it from printed material published by the Department of Labor."
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The story on p 3 does not disappoint 😮🐄
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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TFW your sabbatical research turns up margarine lobbyist action shots 👀🧈
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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This week's read for next week's book club meet 📚 🍺
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang filsonhistorical.omeka.net/items/show/421
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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So I'm down this rabbit hole because one of my postwar women lobbyists wrote that Senator Langer "had listened sympathetically to [her] problem [regarding school lunch legislation] and ... pulled [her] top-knot" earlier that same night.
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Always look at the "miscellany" files 👀 #archives
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This is a whole mood
"When Miss Crosby left my first impulse was to devote all my time to the organization of a committee whose purpose it would be to abolish all organizations."
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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publish or perish 🤷‍♀️
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Also, pics I took last week of the new liberty tree and marker in Green-Wood Cemetery 😎
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Felt like I was killing time down genealogical rabbit holes this morning, but this find is new research project gold #LadyLobbyists
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Picked this article up more for its topical (i.e., interest group coalitions) than its regional focus, but it's not the first piece I've read recently that has me thinking Americanists should be reading more work by Central/Eastern Europeanists #polisky #poliscisky
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Great day to walk through Green-Wood cemetery
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Sometimes FamilySearch transcriptions are great, sometimes not so much
Occupation: Cokspit Occupation: lobbyist
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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It's been decades since my last time here at @brooklynmuseum.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Nice day for a walk now that the rain has moved out
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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TFW an organizational committee report from 1941 hits deep
For we live today in an atmosphere of crisis and with a mixed sense of frustration and urgency. And although the tenseness about us is amply justified by events at home and abroad, it carries with it grave dangers. For its basis is fear and fear may easily lead to confusion and a feeling of helplessness. And above all, there is danger in fear, because, inevitably following it, come persecution, intolerance, misplaced zeal and cruelty. There are many things to be afraid of in the world today. But they are real things, to be countered by purposeful action. If we are afraid of an enemy air force- we build planes. If we are afraid of Congressman So and So - we organize to defeat him. If we are afraid of losing our democracy - we prepare to preserve it. But vague fears, which have no relation to the facts of our crisis, serve only to intensify existing insecurities and hatreds of which we have all too many. America, we should remember, is the home of lynching. We have more national minorities than any other country. Social competition is intense and, even now, the impact of economic change is only thinly cushioned. To this we have added the effects of a twelve year depression. All these hatreds and all these insecurities are fuel for jingoistic hysteria. For eight years Fascism has warred upon the world ... And yet many people in this country still refuse to understand the nature of Fascism ...
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Didn't think I'd do that well 🤷‍♀️
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Oh, and here's one from 1938, calling December 15
"an occasion for a resounding demonstration of faith in liberty and democracy"
Bill of Rights Anniversary: Mrs. Miller expressed the belief that it is desirable for Council to participate in the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1938, it being an occasion for a resounding demonstration of faith in liberty and democracy. Mrs. Brenner moved, and Mrs. Wolf seconded, that we participate.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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On the porch 📚 🍺
October 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM