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25 Ιαν 2023 · These influential Black women in history rarely have their stories told in school and helped pave the way in politics, the arts, sports, and more.
Black women have always served on the front-line in the fight for equality. Although their contributions were sometimes overlooked in both the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, their power, resilience, and courage cannot be overstated.
21 Φεβ 2021 · They scoured history for important Black women, traced family histories, and published pamphlets and books that attempted to piece together a history of Black people in America. Self-educated historians like Leila Amos Pendleton, Laura Eliza Wilkes, and Elizabeth Lindsay Davis wrote monographs in an attempt to correct the record, inspire social ...
23 Φεβ 2019 · Alice Dunnigan made history in 1947 as the first black woman to cover the White House. Alice Dunnigan was mostly ignored during White House news conferences – until John F. Kennedy became...
7 Μαρ 2016 · These women have revolutionized everyday tasks with their inventions, smashed the glass ceiling to smithereens in the business world, fought for our freedom during the Civil Rights Movement and...
“Lifting as we climb,” the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), became a well-known motto for black women’s activism in the late nineteenth century. By this time, middle class black women organized social and political reform through women’s organizations, or clubs.
28 Ιουν 2024 · Though Black women played crucial roles organizing and leading efforts in the fight for equal rights, many mainstream histories ignore their contributions. The reality is that Black women took on important strategic roles at the local level—even as they were denied recognition at the national level.
