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Author: Marcia Chatelain

Dr. Marcia Chatelain is Assistant Professor History and African-American Studies at Georgetown University. She is working on her first book about African-American girls during Great Migration Chicago entitled, South Side Girls: African-American Girlhood in Chicago, 1890-1950. A graduate of Brown University’s Ph.D. program in American Civilization, Dr. Chatelain’s research interests include girls’ organizations, African-American women’s history and food studies. Dr. Chatelain has taught courses in girls’ and women’s studies at Brown University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Chatelain has received awards and fellowships from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma. A professional public speaker, Dr. Chatelain has delivered speeches at the University of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, and Mary Washington University; her very favorite audiences are girls and teenage women in high schools and afterschool programs. Dr. Chatelain has been an active volunteer with the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, the YWCA and Girl Scouts.
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Why the Reactionary Right Fears the Girl Scouts

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Girl Scouts remains a powerful organization devoted to highlighting and celebrating what girls can do in their communities and the world. Yet over the course of its 100 years, Girl Scouts have been charged with many of the crimes that feminists and activists have faced.

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