1. Henrietta Rodman was an American educator and feminist.
12 Facts About Henrietta Rodman
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Henrietta Rodman was active in advocating on behalf of married women teachers for their right to promotion and maternity leave.
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Henrietta Rodman's father was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman in West Farms, Bronx, and founder of St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
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Henrietta Rodman was a 1904 graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Henrietta Rodman was a member of the Liberal Club and of Heterodoxy.
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Henrietta Rodman agitated in the Liberal Club for the inclusion of African-American members, and for support of feminist causes; in 1913 she was successful in leading the relocation of the Liberal Club to MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
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In 1914, Henrietta Rodman formed the Feminist Alliance, uniting several feminist causes to work together.
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Henrietta Rodman took special interest in the collective housing, childcare, and communal kitchens, following the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Henrietta Rodman made serious plans for an apartment building to demonstrate those feminist principles, hiring an architect and rounding up financial backers, but stiff opposition and the onset of war scuttled any chance of success.
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Henrietta Rodman threw crowded dinner parties in her top-floor apartment; Mary Austin recalled attending one such dinner, and meeting James Weldon Johnson there.
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Henrietta Rodman adopted two children and was known as "Mrs Henrietta Rodman" in her personal life.
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Henrietta Rodman died after unsuccessful surgery for a brain tumor in March 1923, at age 45.