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Elisabeth Irwin

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In 1912, while a member of the staff of the Public Education Association, she began work at revising the curriculum for the children at Public School 64. She founded the Little Red School House curriculum in Manhattan in 1921, in the red-painted annex of Public School 61. Her work there, and then at
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Faced with funding cuts, it appeared that the experiment would end, but a group of parents came together in an ice-cream parlor, urging her to start her own school and promising financial support. In September 1932, the "Little Red School House" got its own building at
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as an experiment to demonstrate that "...the broader, more active program of the so-called progressive schools could be carried out under public school conditions."
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Martinac, Paula (1997). The queerest places: A national guide to gay and lesbian historic sites, (p. 113). New York: Henry Holt and Company.
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in October 1942. She was survived by her partner, Katharine Anthony, and their two adopted daughters, Mrs. Howard Gresens of
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Odd girls and twilight lovers: A history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History
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in 1923. She was a member of the feminist intellectual club
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Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin
Little Red School House
lesbian
Katharine Anthony

Brooklyn
Packer Collegiate Institute
A.B.
Smith College
M.A.
Columbia University
Heterodoxy
The New York Times
Bleecker Street
New York Hospital
Plandome, New York
Pensacola, Florida
Gaylordsville, Connecticut
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History
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ISBN
0-618-05697-1
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"ELISABETH IRWIN, LONG AN EDUCATOR; Director of Little Red School House in Ble6cker Street for Many Years is Dead BEGAN IN PUBLIC SYSTEM 1,000 Teachers Annually Visit the Progressive Institution for Observation and Study"
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1880 births
1942 deaths
American lesbians
LGBTQ people from New York (state)

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