WPLN News Archive; Camp Holloway (Kim Green) 7 21 03; News Archive 7/7/03-9/5/03

all this year right here on the top floor of a fifty foot climbing tower for teenage girl scouts boring harnesses gloves and helmets watch instructor paul walker with rapt faces but when it's time to walk to the ledge eager expressions giveaway apprehension at the cat kay founder joseph jean holloway felt that girls challenging themselves with your experiences and encouraging each other was vital to their growth to secure that opportunity for african american girls she herself spent a lifetime with her feet halfway over the edge just plain holway was born into a family that had been a slave family father was a minister very poor family that struggled mightily over a million maintains the historical archive for the cumberland valley girl scout

council but she was able to come to nashville and go to fisk university upon completion a fiasco she was hired by bethlehem center to be the girls' work with the instructions that she was to find something that would enrich the lives of the girls and other things she can't available girl scouting was the most protective to in nineteen twenty four girl scouts founder juliet lowe trained josephine another scout leaders at peabody college in nashville within a year of josephine had ten troops with over three hundred girls but she also fallen for the boys social worker gurney holloway bethlehem center frowned upon married workers so the hallways left in nineteen twenty five the troops foundered in her absence but josephine hallways interest in scouting revived when her three daughters rich brown eh ellie vermillion she approached the board of that davidson county nash for girl scout camps this was in

nineteen thirty seven in the throes of the depression and there was a great debate about what to do about the us and the conclusion of the board was they were so strapped for finances that they just could not afford to establish a separate branch that would be required to provide girl scouting for the negro girl undeterred holloway and her friend simply organized their own unofficial troops dr wesley holloway my father was at the universe of chicago one summer was she shared with him what was going on he's seen her twelve and books and she got it all of us together taught us the laws the promise all we needed to know to become invested under constant pressure from holloway international girl scout office the local council officially recognized hallways troops in nineteen forty two two years later nashville had thirteen black troops with two hundred and fifty two girls and holloway as their field advisor

what how i wanted most was a campsite that would welcome her girls for overnight trips girl scout bill the cast and remembers having to camp outside of tennessee in those days to stay overnight we get to go to evansville indiana which was also segregated but they set aside a couple weeks four black girls the message that the world was saying was that because you are black this is where you show me and this is where you see them in nineteen fifty one the council bought a farm near whitehouse tennessee for black girl scout troops do use an energetic holloway scramble to create a real camp out of the undeveloped land tearing around in her jeep supervising but work crews and campers the only buildings were decaying farm house and some rickety army barracks holder the site by fisk university fraternity cason says the arrest of mine to work with basic accommodations just having a place of their own to sing and

cook hite was what counted for mrs hallways girls as they call themselves because she believed in herself and that sort of radiate it's what's that you can do and you can be whatever you want to be and so it made all of us move up so this because that's what i want to be just a few highway retired in nineteen sixty three the same year the local council integrated girl scout troops in camps today over forty percent of davidson county girl scouts are african american for national public radio i'm kim green hey layla oh no not last song ames oh rise

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