Did you know that Golda Meir went to high school in Denver?
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1898, Golda Mabovitch Meir fled with her family to Wisconsin in 1906 to escape religious persecution. Seven years later, she ran away to Denver to avoid an arranged marriage.
Despite Meir's august career, the house where she'd lived in Denver was in a state of disrepair by1982, when it was scheduled for demolition. But a community effort led by activists and politicians, including then-Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, rallied to save it. It was moved to 1146 Ninth Street, alongside. Golda Meir was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1985; the house where she'd lived received historic landmark designation in 1995.
Now Fishman is on a mission to revitalize the museum and create a place more representative of the historic leader who lived there."It was a house that belonged to a Jewish family, and that part of the identity was often not told," says Fishman."This past year, we’ve been reclaiming that identity."," a symposium to discuss the future of the museum. In the talk"Behind Every Great Woman...
Lahav was one of the speakers at the symposium, as was Andrea Malcomb, director of the Molly Brown House Museum, who talked about creating spaces that reveal women's stories. Stereotypical descriptions label the focus of Brown House museum as the"unsinkable Molly Brown," but there was much more to her life.
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