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Agnes Jones Adams (1858 - April 1923) was a member of National Association of Colored Women, Social Purity Movement, and Woman's Era Club. ==Biography== Agnes Jones Adams was born in a well-known and highly respected family in Baltimore, Maryland. She was given education by public school of the basics for women, but she was gained some higher level subjects of education due to her ambitions to learn more. In her early life, Adams lived what was considered an ordinary life of a woman. She was a devoted church worker of the Methodist Church and took on the job of day school teacher.〔Brown, Haillie Quinn (1926). (Homespun heroines and other women of distinction: a machine-readable transcription Brown, Hallie Q., 1859-1949 ). Publisher: Aldine Pub. Co..〕 She had also worked on varies jobs when the opportunity was given. This continues until she got married. However, her marriage life was a brief happiness. Given the responsibility of child rearing her only son, led her to move to Boston, Massachusetts for his sake. In her new home in Boston, Adams joined the Woman's Era Club, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other organizations. Adams was part of the executive board of Woman's Era Club.〔National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. "A History of the Club Movement Among the Colored Women of the United States of America, as Contained in the Minutes of the Conventions, Held in Boston, July 30, 1895, and the of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, Held in Washington, DC, July 21, 1896". National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1902.〕 She was present during the National Conference of Colored Women at Berkley Hall, Boston, Massachusetts on July 29–31, 1985. Where she discussed about social purity on Wednesday, July 31.〔Gere, Anne Ruggles. "Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920", p. 82. University of Illinois Press, 1997. ISBN 0252066049〕 "To this woman belongs the honor of, at a most critical time, the time when she and women of the same descent, were publicly and brutally attacked, of voicing an unanswerable appeal to justice, culture and civilization. And her heroism in 'standing on the beaches' without stopping to count the cost in her endeavor to right a flagrant wrong entitles her to the highest praise for fidelity and fearlessness." ''〔Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay. "Lifting As They Climb", p. 269. National Association of Colored Women, 1933〕 On April 1923, Agnes Jones Adams died to a serious illness in Baltimore. Her death was reported by her brother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agnes Jones Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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