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Publication date. 1932. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (and Some Lesser Tales) [1] is a book of short stories written by George Bernard Shaw, published in London by Constable and Company in 1932. The title story is a satirical allegory relating the experiences of an African black girl, freshly converted to Christianity ...
Zipporah, or Tzipora ( / ˈzɪpərə, zɪˈpɔːrə /; Hebrew: צִפּוֹרָה, Ṣīppōrā, "bird"), [a] is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Reuel/Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian. [1] She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer, and Gershom .
The Wife of His Youth. " The Wife of His Youth " is a short story by American author Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in July 1898. It later served as the title story of the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line. That book was first published in 1899, the same year Chesnutt published his short story collection ...
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were ...
The “ Black Wife Effect ” is a trend where Black women or their white partners show what the white partner looked like before the Black woman entered their life versus the improved look after ...
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [1] was an African-American woman [4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Dutch: Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Seporah ), c. 1645–1650, is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens. [1] [2] The painting is a half-length depiction of the biblical prophet Moses, and his African wife. The oil on canvas painting is kept by the Rubenshuis museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
Holmes County Board of Education. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenaged boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers ...