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that contained letters that she exchanged with O'Keeffe since they attended Columbia University. The memoir not only contains her affection and love for O'Keeffe, but also anecdotes, family stories, and excerpts from their early letters. The early letters shared between the two mentioned questions of
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Anita was raised Jewish and, as a young woman, taught Sabbath school in Charleston at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. She was later a "nonobservant" Jew and relied upon her own personal strength, rather than reliance on religion. In response to her sister Mabel, who said in prayer, "God gave me mountains
240:, Florence Boeckel, Anita Pollitzer (center, holding hat), Mary Winsor, Sophie Meredith, and Mrs. Richard Wainwright of the National Woman's Party standing on front steps in front of new national headquarters building, across from the U.S. capitol in May 1922 245: 698: 728: 187: 693: 688: 208:. This was the beginning of one of the most significant relationships among artists in the 20th century; Stieglitz promoted her career and later married O'Keeffe. 748: 733: 431: 683: 119: 216:
art and life and questions about the future. They remained friends until Pollitzer's death. Lynne Bundesen, who wrote a review of the book for
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to climb and the strength to climb them," Anita's response was, "I don’t want God to give me mountains to climb…I want to find my own."
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Throughout her time as a suffragist, Anita Pollitzer was in contact with many prominent figures, including
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gallery early in 1916. Stieglitz found them to be the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered
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In 1926, Anita represented South Carolina at the International Feminists Conference (also known as
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Anita graduated from Memminger High School in 1913 and left Charleston to study art at
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in a long while", and in April, Stieglitz exhibited ten of her drawings at
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Oral History Interviews with Mabel Pollitzer, Anita Pollitzer's sister
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SC Suffragists: Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters, and the Vote
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SCETV Specials | SC Suffragists: The Pollitzer Sisters | PBS
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Pollitzer "gained recognition for her close friendship with
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On December 29, 1928, she married Elie Charlier Edson,
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Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
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Anita Pollitzer held positions of leadership in the
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Photography
suffragist
Charleston
South Carolina
rabbi
Prague
Charleston, South Carolina
Mabel
Teachers College, Columbia University
Georgia O'Keeffe
Columbia University
set of charcoal drawings
Alfred Stieglitz
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Alice Paul
Sue White
19th Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Alice Paul
International Alliance of Women
Paris
Amelia Earhart
Eleanor Roosevelt
National Woman's Party
Pete Seeger
New York City
PBS
special

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