Faith Holsaert
American educator and activist (born 1943)
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Faith Holsaert (born 1943) is an American educator and activist during the civil rights movement.
- Educator
- activist
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| Born | 1943 (age 82–83) New York City, U.S. |
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Holsaert was born in New York City in 1943.[1] She was raised by her Jewish mother, Eunice Spellman Holsaert, who was divorced, and her female African American music teacher, Charity Abigail Bailey, in the same household, in Greenwich Village.[1][2] Being brought up in a biracial household, headed by two mother-figures, she was raised in the midst much unrest and disapproval from those around her.[3] She volunteered for the Harlem Brotherhood Group and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a teenager.[1][2] She matriculated to Barnard University in 1961, when she first participated in a sit-in in Crisfield, Maryland to protest racial segregation.[2][3] She was arrested at the sit-in.[1] She registered voters in Terrell County, Georgia in 1962.[1][2] She also volunteered for the Brown Berets.[2] She resides in Durham, North Carolina.[1]
Publications
- Holsaert, Faith S., ed. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. ISBN 9780252078880
- Holsaert, Faith S. Year Forever in My Veins. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Documentary Poems. Durham, NC: Backbone Press Inc, 2020. ISBN 9780999465998
- Holsaert, Faith S. Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2024. ISBN 9780814350799
