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(1895) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women,”
In 1894 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded the Womens New Era Club, a charitable organization of sixty prominent black women in Boston.  Soon afterwards she began editing its monthly publication, the Womens Era.  Encouraged by the success of the New Era Club and heartened by the rapid growth of
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29
1895
Jesse Jackson
In 1990, Jackson helped win the release from Iraq of more than 700 foreign women and children detained as human shields against an American military attack after Iraqs invasion of Kuwait.
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0
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Drew: Heat, Mask, Staying Safe and Cool- How to Make it all Work
By Samuetta Hill Drew August is typically the hottest month of the year in our region of the country. So how does one remain safe during a pandemic, follow state face covering mandates and stay cool all at the same time? How does one achieve this balance? Keeping your face covered when going
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Reynolds, Melvin Jay “Mel” (1952- )
Politician, scholar and professor, Mel Reynolds was born on January 8, 1952, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to parents J.J. and Essie May Reynolds.  Reynolds attended John Marshall High School on the Westside of Chicago where he developed impressive academic credentials.  He then enrolled in Chicago
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Oct
1
1995
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary wo͝ol´stənkräft, –krăft [key], 1759–97, English author and feminist, b. London. She was an early proponent of educational equality between men and women, expressing this radical opinion in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786). Her most important book, A Vindication
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Barber-Scotia College [Concord] (1867-)
Barber-Scotia College is a coed liberal arts school founded by the Presbyterian Church in July 1867 by Reverend Luke Dorland as Scotia Seminary. Reverend Dorland was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church to create an institution to train black women in programs of elementary, secondary and normal
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2
1954
Women investors’ clout rises at the NSE
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Lafon, Thomy (1810-1893)
Born a free person of color in New Orleans, Thomy Lafon was the son of a Frenchman and a free woman of Haitian descent who had been born in Louisiana to a slave mother. Lafon’s father deserted the family when Lafon was a young boy.  Lafon was self-educated.  By 1842, when he was 32, Lafon was
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Is The Help Realistic? It Depends.
In the essay below, Associate Professor Trysh Travis of the University of Floridas Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center explores some of the controversy surrounding Kathryn Stocketts novel The Help, which has also become a major film of the same name.  She argues that many people
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Reed, Judy W. (c. 1826- ? )
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Frederick Douglass attends the first Women'
Frederick Douglass attends the first Womens Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. He speaks in defense of its organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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19
1848
(1970) Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, “I Am For the Equal Rights Amendment.”
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10
1970
Anna Julia Cooper passes
Anna Julia Cooper, champion for the rights of black women, dies at the age of 105.
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1964
Ethiopia Invaded by Italy
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior
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3
1935
Perry, Cynthia Shepard (1928- )
Cynthia Shepard Perry, a Republican and 25 year career diplomat, has served three Republican presidents. President Ronald Reagan appointed her as Chief of Education and Human Resources of the U.S. Agency for International Development where she served from 1982 to 1986, and named her Ambassador to
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Patricia Bath
Born: 11/4/1942 Manhattan, New YorkAmerican ophthalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in
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New Data On Fatal Police Shootings Shows That Black Women Are Disproportionately Killed By Law Enforcement
A Washington Post report shows that since 2015, Black women account for 20 percent of fatal police shootings and 28 percent of the unarmed deaths, despite making up only 13 percent of the women population in the U.S.
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Frances Harper
Born: 9/24/1825 Baltimore, MarylandDied: 2/22/1911 Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrances Harper was an African-American abolitionist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Womens Christian Temperance Union, which advocated the federal government
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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to
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10
1898
Weight Loss Easier When Partners Work Together, Study Finds
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Rice, Constance Williams (1945- )
Rice also sought to provide a space and forum for black women professionals across the city to organize. In 1984, she founded 101 Black Women to provide a region-wide network for black women who often felt isolated in predominately white workplaces and in the city of Seattle.  The
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Checking In: An Equal Partner Is Necessary
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Crumpler , Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895)
For many years Dr. Rebecca Cole was considered to be the first black woman physician.  However, historical research has shown that the honor rightly belongs to Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler who completed her M.D. in 1864, three years before
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The first Black woman tennis champion, Althea Gibson,win's the women's Wimbledon
The first Black woman tennis champion, Althea Gibson,wins the womens Wimbledon singles championship
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National Equal Rights League (1864–1921)
Founded in Syracuse, New York in 1864, the National Equal Rights League (NERL) promoted full and immediate citizenship for African Americans. Created during the Civil War, the League based its call for full citizenship as compensation for military service in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. They
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Nkom, Alice (1945- )
Alice Nkom broke barriers for women by becoming the first female barrister in her country of Cameroon. She is also well known among Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) activists worldwide because of her legal advocacy for gay
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Maria Stewart on Slavery
On this date in 1832, Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) addressed the New England Anti-Slavery Society meeting in Bostons Franklin Hall on the evils of slavery and the oppression of free blacks. This is often cited as the first time an African American woman spoke publicly on political issues before an
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Slavery
Twenty Africans, three of them women, arrive in Jamestown, VA on a Dutch ship and are sold as indentured servants; indentured servitude acts asa forerunner to slavery in English colonies.
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