| Jean Libby, Photographer |
| Jean Libby is a retired community college Instructor who now writes and edits fulltime. check out my published work at ALLIES FOR FREEDOM PUBLISHERS photo with historian David McCullough and students in 2004 by Chancellor Martha Kantor, Foothill-DeAnza Community College District |
| Sarah Brown was the daughter of John Brown, abolitionist. She became friends with another progressive woman and artist, Lucy Higgins, in the 1880s in Saratoga, California. Lucy's husband, Rufus Higgins, was the realtor who arranged the purchase of a farm high in the mountains for Mary Brown, widow of John Brown. After Mary's death in 1884 Sarah moved into town and bought property next to her sister, Ellen Brown Fablinger. All three women and Tom Fablinger, a schoolteacher, opposed discrimination laws against Asian workers. Sarah Brown learned Japanese in order to teach the farmworkers English. They built her a Japanese garden in appreciation. Sarah and Ellen both died in 1917, and are buried in the Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, next to their mother Mary Day Brown "widow of John Brown of Harper's Ferry." Lucy inherited (legacy of Sarah) a letter from John Brown to his wife Mary in 1854, which was passed down in the family and rediscovered in 2003. Lori Deal, the descendant of Lucy and Rufus Higgins, shared this letter with Jean Libby, a John Brown scholar and U.S. History teacher, for the making of this film. It is not yet finished ... Elisabeth, who narrates the video, is seen holding the microphone for the student actors. She is a direct descendant of the Japanese farmworkers in the Santa Clara Valley. "Sarah Brown and Lucy Higgins" Jean Libby, writer and producer preview copy available: jlibby@alum.calberkeley.org |
| Nguyen Chi Thien, dissident poet The Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stories by Nguyen Chi Thien (translated by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Tran Van Dien, Saroyan Vann Phan, and Nguyen Kiem Phong) are now published in English by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University. (November 2007) Jean Libby prepared the English language manuscript for the publishers at Yale, and is the author of the Preface. "survivors" at Monterey Dunes Refuge, California Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. photos by Jean Libby, October 2005, March 2007 |
| Harpers Ferry artist-in-residence Louise Meeks conducting art workshop at the Niagara Movement centenary, August 20, 2006. |
| Elisabeth |
Student parade in honor of Dr. Martin King
at De Anza College. My teaching method.
at De Anza College. My teaching method.
Chi Thien was
a Prisoner of
Conscience
who was
rescued from
prison in
Communist
North Vietnam
(27 years) in
1991 because
the world
cared.
a Prisoner of
Conscience
who was
rescued from
prison in
Communist
North Vietnam
(27 years) in
1991 because
the world
cared.
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