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Sophia B. Jones was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, who founded the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M. Mary Mahoney was the first African-American to graduate from nursing training, graduating ...
Alzira Rufino (born 1949) – feminist, part of both the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement; Heleieth Saffioti (1934–2010) – feminist activist and sociology professor; Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – suffragist, feminit activist, writer and poet; Viviane Senna (born 1957) – president of the Instituto Ayrton Senna
The women's health movement has origins in multiple movements within the United States: the popular health movement of the 1830s and 1840s, the struggle for women/midwives to practice medicine or enter medical schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s, black women's clubs that worked to improve access to healthcare, and various social movements ...
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Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.
The 2003 Maputo Protocol on women's rights in Africa set the continental standard for progressive expansion of women's rights. It guarantees comprehensive rights to women, including the right to participate in the political process, social and political equality with men, autonomy in their reproductive health decisions, and an end to female genital mutilation (FGM).
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The world owes so much to Black women. It’s really enough to end it right there, but in case some The post 5 Black women fighting for equitable reopening of classrooms appeared first on TheGrio.