Biography of Gladys Bentley by Kimberlee Burka https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n en-us 2022-06-01 18:29:57 UTC 2025-10-28 23:39:32 UTC hello@padlet.com s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2212549788 2022-06-06 18:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2212549788 also known as Barbara "Bobbie" Minton s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213951569  ]]> 2022-06-07 18:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213951569 s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213956477 Born | August 12, 1907
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died | January 18, 1960 (aged 52)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.]]> 2022-06-07 18:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213956477 Appearance s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213958496 Black 
Lesbian
Cross-dresser]]> 2022-06-07 18:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213958496 Talent s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213959413 American Blues Singer
Pianist
Entertainer]]> 2022-06-07 18:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213959413 World War I s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213964859 A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the allies ]]> 2022-06-07 18:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213964859 Roaring 20s s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965086 widespread social & economic change & changing cultural values (social change) ]]> 2022-06-07 18:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965086 Great Depression s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965265 Stock Market Crash of 1929 - overproduction, excessive use of credit, underconsumption, & uneven distribution of income 

]]> 2022-06-07 18:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965265 World War II s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965465 A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. it involved the vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. ]]> 2022-06-07 18:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213965465 Women's Rights s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213966178 the right to vote (19th amendment) (1917) ]]> 2022-06-07 18:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2213966178 challenged racial and gender norms s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2215323912
she dressed in a tuxedo with a matching top hat ]]> 2022-06-08 18:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2215323912 LGBTQ+ Movement s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2215342784 With the harassment that Bentley experienced in Harlem for wearing men clothes and flaunting her sexuality intensified. 
Bentley felt forced to hide her sexuality as a lesbian, by publishing "I Am a Women Again" in Ebony magazine and saying that she enjoys the domestic role which she shunned for years".]]> 2022-06-08 18:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2215342784 April 1952 - homosexuals are banned from working for the federal government s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216621977 From president Dwight D. Eisenhower ]]> 2022-06-09 18:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216621977 Daughters of Bilitis formed 1955 s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216628014 first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.]]> 2022-06-09 18:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216628014 s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216629756 2022-06-09 18:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216629756 s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216636255 Glady's Bently felt forced to wear a dress and not with what she wanted. ]]> 2022-06-09 18:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2216636255 LGBTQ+ people can live without discrimination and have equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association. s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217720367 2022-06-10 17:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217720367 women's rights today s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217723988 right to vote and decisions and make their own reproductive decisions ]]> 2022-06-10 17:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217723988 African American rights s901021202 https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217747029 right to vote, own houses, and have jobs]]> 2022-06-10 18:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/s901021202/m009hag7uiyg9e7n/wish/2217747029