Rare Ephemera Feminist Actress and Racist Publisher!
Posted by Richard Gabriel on Sat, Feb 20, 2010 @ 04:42 PM
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Feminist
Izetta Jewel Miller, died Nov. 27, 1978 age 94 a former actress (President Wilson's favorite actress) and early feminist who twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate from West Virginia in the early 1920's and later moved to New York, she was a Democrat. She also became regional director of women's professional projects of the WPA. The letter is addressed to A. A. Beauchamp and he was a publisher of works sometimes for the Anti-Christian Science group and other fractional groups, including the Atheist movement in New England. Beauchamp publishing of Winchester, Massachusetts. He lived at 605 Boylston Stree, Boston, MA.
Extremist views often make strange bedfellows. The racist movement began much earlier, albeit it started as a 'genealogical' quest and historical one in the 1600's but with Totten's and Hine's labors in the late 19th and early 20th century, that created three centers for future British-Israel growth in America: the Northeast, where the two had lectured and published; the Midwest, where their teachings struck a responsive chord among some evangelical Protestants; and ultimately, in the Far West, where many evangelicals had moved. In the Northeast itself, Anglo-Israelism continued to grow after Totten's death in 1909. A major force in nurturing the movement was a Boston publisher, A. A. Beauchamp. Beauchamp took over Totten's role as the principal Anglo-Israel publisher in America. Our Race, Totten's periodical, had ceased publication in 1915. In 1918, Beachamp introduced his own monthly, the Watchman of Israel, devoted to demonstrating that "the English-speaking peoples of today are the lineal descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel and must fulfill in these latter days the responsibilities decreed for them through patriarchs and prophets of Israel." Beachamp's magazine was a collection of brief and non-technical religious essays, together with bits of news about British-Israel activities in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Beauchamp also became the publisher of choice for Anglo-Israel writers in North America, including such older figures as J. H. Allen, for whom Beauchamp published a string of books and rising youner writers such as the Canadian W. G. MacKendrick, who became a significant figure in the 1920's and 1930's under his nom de plume, "The Roadbuilder" (writing was a sideline of MacKendrick's paving business). Beauchamp's activities made him central point of contact for the dispersed and fragmented American British-Israelites.
