subjects, from an economic and humanitarian point of view in order to educate and stimulate public opinion to a more intelligent and comprehensive understanding of these questions.
Even men, who can vote, know that they cannot make changes through voting
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with the board of education in Chicago and is now private secretary to the assistant superintendent of schools.
Fifty Black women work as teachers in mixed-race schools. Other Black women work as clerks, stenographers, and office workers.
Young
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-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University.
Clara Lemlich Shavelson was born in 1886 in Gorodok, Ukraine. She did not receive a formal education because there were no Jewish schools for girls. But Clara did not let this stop her. She borrowed books
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stay safe, support themselves, educate their children, and fight for their rights. Strategies varied. Some people brought legal suits in court. Some wrote books and editorials. Some left the South in search of better lives in the North or West. But most
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men are physically superior.
Education was long denied her, and while now the doors of the schoolroom are opened and her opportunities for acquiring knowledge are great . . . She will still be where some legislation to protect her seems necessary to
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An advertisement for a feminist mass meeting in New York City that includes an outline of topics up for discussion and a list of some of the city’s most prominent feminist radicals.
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, and the sometimes violent hostility of many whites.
Ida grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the oldest of eight children. Her parents, James and Elizabeth Wells, learned to read after slavery and made sure their children were educated. James had
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, when her parents decided she should be educated at home, where she could also help care for her younger siblings and assist her father in his work. When she was 14, she survived a severe case of rheumatic fever that resulted in lifelong breathing
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The story of America’s first self-made Black female millionaire and how she built a beauty empire that celebrated and empowered Black women.
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The story of a world-traveling investigative journalist who used her career to shed light on the horrors of urban life and break gender stereotypes.
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