Введение
Американский специалист по вопросам мира и конфликтов (род. 1940)
Mary Elizabeth King (born July 30, 1940) is a professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations affiliated University for Peace, a political scientist, and author of several publications. She is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received a doctorate in international politics from Aberystwyth University in 1999. She is also a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute and a distinguished Scholar at the American University Center for Global Peace in Washington D. C.
She received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award in 2003. In 2009 she was awarded the El Hibri Peace Education Prize. In May 2011, her alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University awarded her a doctor of laws (honorary) degree. Between 1968 and 1972 King worked for the federal government during the Johnson and Nixon administrations under the U. S. office of economic opportunity helping to set up neighborhood health services for America's rural and urban poor. And in 1974 King, with five other women, established the National Association of Women Business Owners. She was president of the Organization in 1976. King was appointed deputy director of the independent subcabinet federal agency that housed the Peace Corps, VISTA, and various programs of the ACTION agency under president Jimmy Carter. Mary resides with her husband, Dr. Peter G. Bourne, in Virginia in the United States and in Oxford in the United Kingdom. She got her start in activism in college when she participated in a study tour across the south. On this tour in 1962 King and other students, both white and black, stayed at black colleges such as Fisk University, Clark College, and Tuskegee Institute. This group of students also visited white schools, such as Vanderbilt University, Agnes Scott College, and Georgia Tech. On the Study tour King was introduced to SNCC when she met John Lewis and Bernard Lafayette. Both of the men King met had been Freedom Riders and were affiliated with SNCC. Also on this study tour King met another student activist, Casey Hayden. Hayden would also become a staff member of SNCC and close friend to King. King marked this study tour as "a turning point in [her] life." When King returned to Ohio Wesleyan University after her study tour she set up her own student organization. The organization she created was called The Student Committee on Race Relations (SCORR). With this organization, King linked together sixty students to change University policies; such as, Ohio Wesleyan's policy of rooming black freshman in single dorms or only with each other, along with the University's policies of limiting black enrollment. King graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in June 1962 and following in the same path as Casey Hayden was introduced to civil rights activist, Ella Baker, through the Young Women's Christian Association in the southern region. Through this organization, Baker and professor Howard Zinn of Spelman College asked King to participate in their human relations project. This project would involve King travelling with a recent black graduate to different colleges to assess the extent of academic freedom in the south. King agreed to participate. For this job King moved to Atlanta, Georgia and was partnered with a young black woman, Roberta Yanci "Bobbi." As part of the project, King and Bobbi wrote and distributed a six page newsletter, "Notes from the South." The newsletter chronicled litigation, student direct action, token integration occurring on college campuses and on what SNCC was doing. The goal of the human relations project was to help southern whites meet and know educated black counterparts from the same area, so that they could develop relationships with them as human beings. SNCC's office headquarters were also in Atlanta, so during the year that King worked for the human relations project she also volunteered at SNCC, mostly doing office clerical work. Volunteering helped King establish connections with SNCC staff members, leading to her obtaining a staff position with the organization. In June 1963 when her job ended with the human relations project, King began working for SNCC. She was to assist the organizations press secretary Julian Bond. After being hired by SNCC, King was sent to Danville, Virginia to run SNCC's communications operation there. She was to manage everything related to the information SNCC gave to the news media representatives in Danville. This role also made her the direct telephone link between SNCC's Danville office and its headquarters in Atlanta. In Danville King participated in protests against Danville mills. Protesters wanted fair employment policies at the mills and also led a boycott of Dan River Mills products. In July 1963, Leonard W. Holt, a black attorney, told King that she was about to be indicted for acts of violence and war by Danville courts; therefore, she needed to leave Danville. King fled to a Roman Catholic convent in North Carolina and eventually returned to SNCC headquarters in Atlanta only to be sent to Mississippi. King was sent to Mississippi to prepare a brochure and while there she encountered many leading activists for the Mississippi movement; such as Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses. By December 1963 King was back at SNCC headquarters in Atlanta, occasionally running its communications program under Julian Bond. While in Atlanta, King was arrested and jailed for participating in a lunch counter sit in. King did communications work for SNCC in Atlanta between 1963 and 1964. Then between 1964 and 1965 her work was stationed in Jackson, Mississippi. The goals of communication were to create public and national awareness of the movement. Kings job entailed calling jails when activists were arrested, calling news media to give them stories about the movement, connecting SNCC offices to transfer news, and also help publish SNCC's newspaper, "The Student Voice." King had been in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer project of 1964. After the summer project had ended a SNCC staff meeting was called to discuss the future of the organization. For this meeting King wrote two papers. One paper she wrote reflected on SNCC's need for a better communication system and how that need interfered with SNCC's lack of bureaucracy. The second paper King co wrote with Casey Hayden, also in Mississippi with the SNCC. This paper addressed what it meant to be a woman SNCC staff member and the unequal treatment that resulted because of the patriarchal system. In King's words, it addressed the issue "of how my growing perception of myself as a woman might affect the structure and program of SNCC." In 1965 King and Hayden expanded on this paper, elaborating on its central thesis that not only in society at large, but also within the civil rights movement itself, women are "caught" in a "common law caste system" that limits their opportunity and voice. King and Hayden sent "Sex and Caste A Kind of Memo" to forty women activists across the U. S. These women were involved in organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, the National Student Association, the Northern Student Movement, the Student Peace Union, and SNCC. The document was subsequently published under the title "Sex and Caste" in the pacificst periodical Liberation, and entreated women to "start to talk with each other more openly." In the summer of 1965 King began planning and conducting workshops to help movement volunteers remain active in civil rights issues once they went home. The workshops were "to discuss ways of using new skills, experiences, and lessons learned from community organizing in other parts of the country and in other phases of the movement." In her autobiography, King describes feeling estranged from SNCC for various reasons. This estrangement led to her resignation from SNCC at the end of 1965.
Мэри Элизабет Кинг (родилась 30 июля 1940 года) – профессор исследований мира и конфликтов в Университете мира, аффилированном с Организацией Объединенных Наций, политолог и автор нескольких публикаций. Она окончила Университет Огайо Уэслиан и получила докторскую степень по международной политике в Университете Аберистуита в 1999 году. Она также является сотрудником Американского института Ротермира и выдающимся ученым в Центре глобального мира Американского университета в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия. В 2003 году она была удостоена международной премии Джамналала Баджая. В 2009 году ей была присуждена премия Эль Хибри за просвещение в области мира. В мае 2011 года ее альма-матер, Университет Огайо Уэслиан, присвоил ей степень доктора юридических наук (почетной). В период с 1968 по 1972 год Кинг работала в федеральном правительстве во время администраций Джонсона и Никсона в Управлении экономических возможностей США, помогая создавать районные медицинские службы для малообеспеченных жителей сельской и городской местности Америки. А в 1974 году Кинг вместе с пятью другими женщинами основала Национальную ассоциацию женщин-предпринимателей и в 1976 году была избрана президентом организации. Кинг была назначена заместителем директора независимого федерального агентства под руководством кабинета министров, в котором располагались Корпус мира, VISTA и различные программы агентства ACTION при президенте Джимми Картере. Мэри проживает со своим мужем, доктором Питером Г. Бурном, в Вирджинии, США, и в Оксфорде, Великобритания. Ее активистская деятельность началась в колледже с участия в учебной поездке по южным штатам. В 1962 году Кинг и другие студенты, как белые, так и чернокожие, останавливались в колледжах для афроамериканцев, таких как Университет Фиска, Колледж Кларка и Институт Таскиги. Эта группа студентов также посетила учебные заведения для белых, такие как Университет Вандербильта, Колледж Агнес Скотт и Технологический институт Джорджии. Во время этой поездки Кинг познакомилась с SNCC (Комитетом координации ненасильственного сопротивления), встретив Джона Льюиса и Бернарда Лафайетта, которые оба были участниками движения Freedom Riders и сотрудничали с SNCC. В ходе этой же поездки Кинг познакомилась с другим студенческим активистом, Кейси Хейден, которая впоследствии стала сотрудником SNCC и близким другом Кинг. Кинг назвала эту поездку «поворотным моментом в своей жизни». Вернувшись в Университет Огайо Уэслиан после учебной поездки, Кинг создала собственную студенческую организацию – Студенческий комитет по расовым отношениям (SCORR). С помощью этой организации Кинг объединила шестьдесят студентов для изменения политики университета, в частности, политики Огайо Уэслиан, согласно которой афроамериканские первокурсники размещались в отдельных общежитиях или только друг с другом, а также политики университета, ограничивающей набор афроамериканских студентов. Кинг окончила Университет Огайо Уэслиан в июне 1962 года и, по примеру Кейси Хейден, познакомилась с активисткой по гражданским правам Эллой Бейкер через Христианскую ассоциацию молодых женщин в южном регионе. Через эту организацию Бейкер и профессор Говард Зинн из колледжа Спилман попросили Кинг принять участие в их проекте по развитию межличностных отношений. В рамках этого проекта Кинг вместе с чернокожим выпускником посетила различные колледжи, чтобы оценить степень академической свободы на юге. Кинг согласилась участвовать. Для этой работы Кинг переехала в Атланту, штат Джорджия, и стала работать в паре с молодой афроамериканкой, Робертой Янси "Бобби". В рамках проекта Кинг и Бобби написали и распространили шестистраничный информационный бюллетень "Заметки с Юга", в котором освещались судебные процессы, прямые действия студентов, символическая интеграция в университетских кампусах и деятельность SNCC. Целью проекта по развитию межличностных отношений было помочь белым южанам познакомиться и установить отношения с образованными афроамериканцами из того же региона, чтобы они могли воспринимать их как личностей. Штаб-квартира SNCC также находилась в Атланте, поэтому в течение года, когда Кинг работала над проектом по развитию межличностных отношений, она также работала волонтером в SNCC, в основном выполняя канцелярскую работу. Волонтерская работа помогла Кинг установить связи с сотрудниками SNCC, что привело к ее трудоустройству в организации. В июне 1963 года, когда ее работа над проектом по развитию межличностных отношений завершилась, Кинг начала работать в SNCC, помогая пресс-секретарю организации Джулиану Бонду. После трудоустройства в SNCC Кинг была отправлена в Данвилл, штат Вирджиния, чтобы возглавить коммуникационную работу SNCC в этом городе. Ей предстояло управлять всей информацией, которую SNCC предоставляла представителям средств массовой информации в Данвилле, а также обеспечивать прямую телефонную связь между офисом SNCC в Данвилле и его штаб-квартирой в Атланте. В Данвилле Кинг участвовала в протестах против текстильных фабрик Данвилла, требуя справедливой политики найма и организуя бойкот продукции Dan River Mills. В июле 1963 года Леонард У. Холт, афроамериканский адвокат, сообщил Кинг, что ее собираются обвинить в насилии и разжигании войны в судах Данвилла, и ей необходимо покинуть город. Кинг бежала в католический монастырь в Северной Каролине и в конечном итоге вернулась в штаб-квартиру SNCC в Атланте, откуда ее отправили в Миссисипи. Кинг была отправлена в Миссисипи для подготовки брошюры, где она встретила многих ведущих активистов движения в Миссисипи, таких как Фанни Лу Хамер и Боб Мозес. К декабрю 1963 года Кинг вернулась в штаб-квартиру SNCC в Атланте, время от времени возглавляя коммуникационную программу под руководством Джулиана Бонда. Находясь в Атланте, Кинг была арестована и заключена в тюрьму за участие в сидячей забастовке за обеденным столом. Кинг занималась коммуникационной работой для SNCC в Атланте с 1963 по 1964 год, а затем с 1964 по 1965 год ее работа была сосредоточена в Джексоне, штат Миссисипи. Целью коммуникации было повышение осведомленности общественности и на национальном уровне о движении. Работа Кинг включала в себя звонки в тюрьмы, когда активистов арестовывали, звонки в средства массовой информации для предоставления информации о движении, связь между офисами SNCC для обмена новостями, а также помощь в публикации газеты SNCC "The Student Voice". Кинг находилась в Миссисипи во время проекта "Свободное лето" 1964 года. После завершения летнего проекта было созвано собрание сотрудников SNCC для обсуждения будущего организации. Для этого собрания Кинг написала два доклада. В одном докладе она размышляла о необходимости для SNCC улучшить коммуникационную систему и о том, как эта потребность мешала отсутствию бюрократии в SNCC. Второй доклад Кинг написала в соавторстве с Кейси Хейден, которая также находилась в Миссисипи с SNCC. В этом докладе рассматривался вопрос о том, что значит быть женщиной-сотрудником SNCC и о неравном отношении, которое возникало из-за патриархальной системы. По словам Кинг, в нем рассматривался вопрос "о том, как мое растущее восприятие себя как женщины может повлиять на структуру и программу SNCC". В 1965 году Кинг и Хейден расширили этот доклад, уточнив его основную мысль о том, что женщины, не только в обществе в целом, но и в самом движении за гражданские права, "попали в ловушку" "общего права кастовой системы", которая ограничивает их возможности и голос. Кинг и Хейден разослали "Секс и каста – своего рода записка" сорока женщинам-активисткам по всей территории США. Эти женщины были вовлечены в такие организации, как "Студенты за демократическое общество", "Национальная студенческая ассоциация", "Северное студенческое движение", "Студенческий мирный союз" и SNCC. Документ был впоследствии опубликован под названием "Секс и каста" в пацифистском журнале Liberation и призывал женщин "начать более открыто разговаривать друг с другом". Летом 1965 года Кинг начала планировать и проводить семинары, чтобы помочь волонтерам движения оставаться активными в вопросах гражданских прав после возвращения домой. Семинары были посвящены обсуждению способов использования новых навыков, опыта и уроков, извлеченных из организации сообществ, в других частях страны и в других сферах движения. В своей автобиографии Кинг описывает чувство отчужденности от SNCC по разным причинам, что привело к ее уходу из SNCC в конце 1965 года.
Mary Elizabeth King (born July 30, 1940) is a professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations affiliated University for Peace, a political scientist, and author of several publications. She is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received a doctorate in international politics from Aberystwyth University in 1999. She is also a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute and a distinguished Scholar at the American University Center for Global Peace in Washington D. C.
She received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award in 2003. In 2009 she was awarded the El Hibri Peace Education Prize. In May 2011, her alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University awarded her a doctor of laws (honorary) degree. Between 1968 and 1972 King worked for the federal government during the Johnson and Nixon administrations under the U. S. office of economic opportunity helping to set up neighborhood health services for America's rural and urban poor. And in 1974 King, with five other women, established the National Association of Women Business Owners. She was president of the Organization in 1976. King was appointed deputy director of the independent subcabinet federal agency that housed the Peace Corps, VISTA, and various programs of the ACTION agency under president Jimmy Carter. Mary resides with her husband, Dr. Peter G. Bourne, in Virginia in the United States and in Oxford in the United Kingdom. She got her start in activism in college when she participated in a study tour across the south. On this tour in 1962 King and other students, both white and black, stayed at black colleges such as Fisk University, Clark College, and Tuskegee Institute. This group of students also visited white schools, such as Vanderbilt University, Agnes Scott College, and Georgia Tech. On the Study tour King was introduced to SNCC when she met John Lewis and Bernard Lafayette. Both of the men King met had been Freedom Riders and were affiliated with SNCC. Also on this study tour King met another student activist, Casey Hayden. Hayden would also become a staff member of SNCC and close friend to King. King marked this study tour as "a turning point in [her] life." When King returned to Ohio Wesleyan University after her study tour she set up her own student organization. The organization she created was called The Student Committee on Race Relations (SCORR). With this organization, King linked together sixty students to change University policies; such as, Ohio Wesleyan's policy of rooming black freshman in single dorms or only with each other, along with the University's policies of limiting black enrollment. King graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in June 1962 and following in the same path as Casey Hayden was introduced to civil rights activist, Ella Baker, through the Young Women's Christian Association in the southern region. Through this organization, Baker and professor Howard Zinn of Spelman College asked King to participate in their human relations project. This project would involve King travelling with a recent black graduate to different colleges to assess the extent of academic freedom in the south. King agreed to participate. For this job King moved to Atlanta, Georgia and was partnered with a young black woman, Roberta Yanci "Bobbi." As part of the project, King and Bobbi wrote and distributed a six page newsletter, "Notes from the South." The newsletter chronicled litigation, student direct action, token integration occurring on college campuses and on what SNCC was doing. The goal of the human relations project was to help southern whites meet and know educated black counterparts from the same area, so that they could develop relationships with them as human beings. SNCC's office headquarters were also in Atlanta, so during the year that King worked for the human relations project she also volunteered at SNCC, mostly doing office clerical work. Volunteering helped King establish connections with SNCC staff members, leading to her obtaining a staff position with the organization. In June 1963 when her job ended with the human relations project, King began working for SNCC. She was to assist the organizations press secretary Julian Bond. After being hired by SNCC, King was sent to Danville, Virginia to run SNCC's communications operation there. She was to manage everything related to the information SNCC gave to the news media representatives in Danville. This role also made her the direct telephone link between SNCC's Danville office and its headquarters in Atlanta. In Danville King participated in protests against Danville mills. Protesters wanted fair employment policies at the mills and also led a boycott of Dan River Mills products. In July 1963, Leonard W. Holt, a black attorney, told King that she was about to be indicted for acts of violence and war by Danville courts; therefore, she needed to leave Danville. King fled to a Roman Catholic convent in North Carolina and eventually returned to SNCC headquarters in Atlanta only to be sent to Mississippi. King was sent to Mississippi to prepare a brochure and while there she encountered many leading activists for the Mississippi movement; such as Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses. By December 1963 King was back at SNCC headquarters in Atlanta, occasionally running its communications program under Julian Bond. While in Atlanta, King was arrested and jailed for participating in a lunch counter sit in. King did communications work for SNCC in Atlanta between 1963 and 1964. Then between 1964 and 1965 her work was stationed in Jackson, Mississippi. The goals of communication were to create public and national awareness of the movement. Kings job entailed calling jails when activists were arrested, calling news media to give them stories about the movement, connecting SNCC offices to transfer news, and also help publish SNCC's newspaper, "The Student Voice." King had been in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer project of 1964. After the summer project had ended a SNCC staff meeting was called to discuss the future of the organization. For this meeting King wrote two papers. One paper she wrote reflected on SNCC's need for a better communication system and how that need interfered with SNCC's lack of bureaucracy. The second paper King co wrote with Casey Hayden, also in Mississippi with the SNCC. This paper addressed what it meant to be a woman SNCC staff member and the unequal treatment that resulted because of the patriarchal system. In King's words, it addressed the issue "of how my growing perception of myself as a woman might affect the structure and program of SNCC." In 1965 King and Hayden expanded on this paper, elaborating on its central thesis that not only in society at large, but also within the civil rights movement itself, women are "caught" in a "common law caste system" that limits their opportunity and voice. King and Hayden sent "Sex and Caste A Kind of Memo" to forty women activists across the U. S. These women were involved in organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, the National Student Association, the Northern Student Movement, the Student Peace Union, and SNCC. The document was subsequently published under the title "Sex and Caste" in the pacificst periodical Liberation, and entreated women to "start to talk with each other more openly." In the summer of 1965 King began planning and conducting workshops to help movement volunteers remain active in civil rights issues once they went home. The workshops were "to discuss ways of using new skills, experiences, and lessons learned from community organizing in other parts of the country and in other phases of the movement." In her autobiography, King describes feeling estranged from SNCC for various reasons. This estrangement led to her resignation from SNCC at the end of 1965.