She was a teacher from 1876 to 1882 at the Huguenot Seminary in Wellington, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Later she worked for 17 years with poor mountain whites in Bethel, Alabama. She also taught in Kansas and Nebraska and in a Hartford school for the adult blind.
She took up residency in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and joined two of her sisters (M. Adele and Elizabeth) -- together with Alice Byington (a friend who lived with them) -- in running a girls' school.
She never married.
In 1904 she single-handedly staged the first successful sit-down strike in the United States. The New England Telephone Company planned to put a pole in her front yard, and they began digging the hole. But Emilia Brewer came out and sat in the hole, blocking their efforts. In fact, she stayed there overnight, sleeping in a tent provided by a kind neighbor. The Telephone Company finally managed to install the pole across the street.
Later she worked for 17 years with poor mountain whites in Bethel, Alabama. She also taught in Kansas and Nebraska and in a Hartford school for the adult blind.
She took up residency in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and joined two of her sisters (M. Adele and Elizabeth) -- together with Alice Byington (a friend who lived with them) -- in running a girls' school.
She never married.
In 1904 she single-handedly staged the first successful sit-down strike in the United States. The New England Telephone Company planned to put a pole in her front yard, and they began digging the hole. But Emilia Brewer came out and sat in the hole, blocking their efforts. In fact, she stayed there overnight, sleeping in a tent provided by a kind neighbor. The Telephone Company finally managed to install the pole across the street.
She was a teacher from 1876 to 1882 at the Huguenot Seminary in Wellington, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Later she worked for 17 years with poor mountain whites in Bethel, Alabama. She also taught in Kansas and Nebraska and in a Hartford school for the adult blind.
She took up residency in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and joined two of her sisters (M. Adele and Elizabeth) -- together with Alice Byington (a friend who lived with them) -- in running a girls' school.
She never married.
In 1904 she single-handedly staged the first successful sit-down strike in the United States. The New England Telephone Company planned to put a pole in her front yard, and they began digging the hole. But Emilia Brewer came out and sat in the hole, blocking their efforts. In fact, she stayed there overnight, sleeping in a tent provided by a kind neighbor. The Telephone Company finally managed to install the pole across the street.
Later she worked for 17 years with poor mountain whites in Bethel, Alabama. She also taught in Kansas and Nebraska and in a Hartford school for the adult blind.
She took up residency in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and joined two of her sisters (M. Adele and Elizabeth) -- together with Alice Byington (a friend who lived with them) -- in running a girls' school.
She never married.
In 1904 she single-handedly staged the first successful sit-down strike in the United States. The New England Telephone Company planned to put a pole in her front yard, and they began digging the hole. But Emilia Brewer came out and sat in the hole, blocking their efforts. In fact, she stayed there overnight, sleeping in a tent provided by a kind neighbor. The Telephone Company finally managed to install the pole across the street.
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Emilia Field Brewer
1834 - 1918
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