Up from the cellar / Lini de Vries.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, MN : Vanilla Press, c1979.Description: 420 pages : 9 pages of black and white photos ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 091726617X :
  • 0917266188 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1/092/4 B
LOC classification:
  • CT 558 .D48 A38 1979
Contents:
1. New Jersey, 1907 - 1925 The Cellar -- 2. New Jersey, 1925 - 1928 Coming out of the Cellar -- 3. Port Chester, New York, 1928 - 1933 The Wedding Chalice -- 4. New York City, 1933 - 1937 Becoming by Doing -- 5. The Madrid front, Spain, and New York City, 1937 - 1938 -- 6. New Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Southeast United States, Chicago and California, 1938 - 1948 McCarthy's Hordes -- 7. New Mexico and California, 1948 - 1949 Farewell, United States of America -- 8. Mexico, 1949 - 1962 The victory.
Summary: "Get to the cellar, you damned child!" So begins the remarkable autobiography of Lini de Vries. It is not just the story of a woman, but of an indomitable spirit that would not be crushed by an insane mother, by the appalling conditions of millworkers in the Twenties, or by prejudice toward someone who was a 'foreigner" from the wrong side of the tracks. This spirit enabled her to overcome debilitating illnesses, a tragic romance and two tragic marriages - even 'McCarthy's Hordes' - to become one of America's most efficient and innovative public health educators. In a strange way, Lini de Vries owes her final triumph in the Mexican mountains to McCarthy. Because she chose to join the Lincoln Battalion as a nurse in the fight against the fascists' rehearsal for World War II, she was persued across this country and, finally, into Mexico. Her conviction that all human beings have the right to freedom and dignity is the spirit that inspires her life and ours." - from dust jacketSummary: "Lini M. De Vries (July 25, 1905—March 27, 1982), born Lena Moerkerk in Prospect Park, New Jersey, was a Dutch–American author, public health nurse, and teacher. She worked as chief of American Hospital Number 3 on the Madrid-Valencia Road during the Spanish Civil War and later organized health clinics in New Mexico, California, and Puerto Rico. She moved to Mexico in 1949 after her membership in the Communist Party was exposed. In Mexico, De Vries taught medicine and public health to indigenous villagers in the Papaloapan River Basin in Oaxaca; taught anthropology and public health at the University of Veracruz; was a founder of CIDOC, a religious, educational and cultural school; and helped found Cemanahuac, an educational community in Cuernavaca, Mexico." - Wikipedia
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1. New Jersey, 1907 - 1925 The Cellar -- 2. New Jersey, 1925 - 1928 Coming out of the Cellar -- 3. Port Chester, New York, 1928 - 1933 The Wedding Chalice -- 4. New York City, 1933 - 1937 Becoming by Doing -- 5. The Madrid front, Spain, and New York City, 1937 - 1938 -- 6. New Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Southeast United States, Chicago and California, 1938 - 1948 McCarthy's Hordes -- 7. New Mexico and California, 1948 - 1949 Farewell, United States of America -- 8. Mexico, 1949 - 1962 The victory.

"Get to the cellar, you damned child!" So begins the remarkable autobiography of Lini de Vries. It is not just the story of a woman, but of an indomitable spirit that would not be crushed by an insane mother, by the appalling conditions of millworkers in the Twenties, or by prejudice toward someone who was a 'foreigner" from the wrong side of the tracks. This spirit enabled her to overcome debilitating illnesses, a tragic romance and two tragic marriages - even 'McCarthy's Hordes' - to become one of America's most efficient and innovative public health educators. In a strange way, Lini de Vries owes her final triumph in the Mexican mountains to McCarthy. Because she chose to join the Lincoln Battalion as a nurse in the fight against the fascists' rehearsal for World War II, she was persued across this country and, finally, into Mexico. Her conviction that all human beings have the right to freedom and dignity is the spirit that inspires her life and ours." - from dust jacket

"Lini M. De Vries (July 25, 1905—March 27, 1982), born Lena Moerkerk in Prospect Park, New Jersey, was a Dutch–American author, public health nurse, and teacher. She worked as chief of American Hospital Number 3 on the Madrid-Valencia Road during the Spanish Civil War and later organized health clinics in New Mexico, California, and Puerto Rico. She moved to Mexico in 1949 after her membership in the Communist Party was exposed. In Mexico, De Vries taught medicine and public health to indigenous villagers in the Papaloapan River Basin in Oaxaca; taught anthropology and public health at the University of Veracruz; was a founder of CIDOC, a religious, educational and cultural school; and helped found Cemanahuac, an educational community in Cuernavaca, Mexico." - Wikipedia

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