Just a Few Strong Women I think we should all salute –Ida B. Wells –
born 7/16/1862 anti-lynching activist A giant of the independent black press, and an early media literacy educator, Wells’ leadership and uncompromising vision continue to reverberate for black women. Published her own paper – Free Speech and Headlight, and her own autobiography
Phyllis Wheatley –
born in Senegal =- kidnapped at age of 8 – published her first poem in English in U.S. at age of 12. Her first and only book: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Lorraine Hansberry
Septima Poinsette Clark
an educator and activist — In 1920, while serving as an educator in Charleston, Clark worked with the NAACP to gather petitions calling for blacks to serve as principals in Charleston schools—which resulted in the first black principal in Charleston. Clark also worked tirelessly to teach literacy to black adults.
Elizabeth Keckley
born in Virginia– mother: house slave Mary Burwell father: slave owner: Armistead Burwell. Purchased her own freedom from Hugh Garland (slave owner) and her son for a price of $1200.
In Washington DC, Elizabeth’s reputation as a dressmaker grew until she had such prestigious clients as the wives of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. She was eventually introduced to Mary Todd Lincoln on the day of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, and hired as her dressmaker and personal daily dresser. She published her autobiography “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House” in 1868.
Debi Thomas
March 21, 1986 – becomes first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship
Ella Baker
is one of those people. An active civil rights leader in the 1930s, Ms. Baker fought for civil rights for five decades, working alongside W.E.B Dubois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr. She even mentored well-known civil rights activist, Rosa Parks.
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