History Day - Civil Rights & Human Rights

These are only a few examples. The focus is on Connecticut or previous topics.

The CT State Archives received her papers.

Biographical Note (from finding aid)
Betty Hudson, née Elizabeth Bagi, was born on March 5, 1931 in Port Chester, New York, along with her identical twin sister, Mary "Re-Re." She attended Stamford High School and Michigan State University, married Donald Hudson, and settled in Branford, Connecticut. The couple had two children, Todd and Leigh, and eventually relocated to Madison, Connecticut, where Hudson began her political career. In 1974, she legally changed her first name to "Betty."

The CT Archives finding aid includes the following:

Bibliography
Articles
Roessner, B. T. "Former State Senator Continues Her Crusades From Governor's Office," The Hartford Courant, November 11, 1979, p. 37.
Books
Love, B. J. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Websites
The Hartford Courant. Hudson, Betty: Obituary
The New Haven Register. Hudson, Donald and Doreen: Obituary
Roessner, B. T. "Former State Senator Continues Her Crusades From Governor's Office," The Hartford Courant, November 11, 1979, p. 37.
Love, B. J. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Born October 4, 1890 in Kansas. Died July 1, 1962.

Assigned female at birth, Hart identified as a boy.

Alan Hart was one of the first  to undergo gender affirmation surgery in the United States (1917 hysterectomy). 1940's Alan and his wife, Edna, moved to Connecticut and bought a house in West Hartford 1950. 1945 obtained a license to practice medicine in Connecticut. Hart worked for the state Tuberculosis Commission as x-ray director of the State Health Department Office of Tuberculosis Control, Hospital Care and Rehabilitation.

Sources consulted are linked below.

These are a few examples.

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