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The sisters are the second-oldest surviving congregation of African-American religious. In 1988, the congregation formally opened the beatification process for DeLille with the Holy See. She was of mixed race: her father was a white man from France, her mother was a quadroon, and her maternal grandfather was a white man from Spain.
The Griffin Sisters, Emma (1874–1918) and Mabel (1877–1918) Griffin, were American vaudeville performers in the late 1800s and early 1900s who became entrepreneurs and social activists and opened one of the first booking agencies owned by Black women.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
Fultz sisters with John F. Kennedy at the White House (1962) The sisters spent the summer of 1960 on a promotional tour for Pet; on the tour they met Althea Gibson and Floyd Patterson. [19] While they were in high school at Caswell County Training School, the sisters spent summers working at a diner in Greensboro, living in the owner's home.
In 2002, Dolezal unsuccessfully sued Howard University for discrimination based on "race, pregnancy, family responsibilities, and gender, as well as retaliation". Her lawsuit alleged that she was denied scholarship funds, a teaching assistant position, and other opportunities because she was a white woman.
Miriam Zinter is a Black woman who presents as a white woman. She began her career as a community organizer, was the executive director of a not-for-profit neighborhood organization, became the ...
Charlotte and her sisters also organized a "Women's Rights Convention" on December 20, 1870 that was attended by prominent Black and White Republicans. After this convention, the Rollin sisters received a charter for a South Carolina branch of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
My sisters were the color and noise in my black-and-white boy world — how I pitied my friends who had brothers.” — Rob Sheffield, “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran”