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120 Black History Month Quotes You Need To Know Hearst Owned The contributions of Black people to American society and the world should be celebrated every day of the year.
February is Black History Month. The commemoration began nearly a hundred years ago when historian Carter G. Woodson initiated a week-long observance back in 1926. That recognition evolved over ...
February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. These ...
African-American women began experiencing the "Anti-Black" women's suffrage movement. [12] The National Woman Suffrage Association considered the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote. [13]
Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore.
First African-American woman in the U.S. Cabinet: Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; First African-American woman whose signature appeared on U.S. currency: Azie Taylor Morton, the 36th Treasurer of the United States; First African-American publisher of mainstream gay publication: Alan Bell [265] [266]
2. “Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they ...
Maria Stewart was the first American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men, women, both Black and white (termed a "promiscuous" audience during the early 19th century). [4] She was also the first African American woman to lecture on women's rights , focusing particularly on the rights of Black women, religion, and social justice.