Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933): Life, Major Works and Accomplishments
At a time when African-Americans did not have the luxury of enjoying certain rights and freedoms in the United States, one woman decided to change that. Her name was Lucy...
At a time when African-Americans did not have the luxury of enjoying certain rights and freedoms in the United States, one woman decided to change that. Her name was Lucy...
Mary McLeod Bethune sacrificed a lot in her life to improve the lives of African Americans. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women, the educator spent the majority of...
On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin’s life changed forever. During that period, Black Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, and in many other states, were heavily discriminated against due to harsh segregation...
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is generally described as one of the most pivotal political and social activists in Britain’s history. Although her militant strategies have attracted their fair share of disapproving...
The year was 1762, Abigail Smith, a 17-year-old Weymouth, Massachusetts-born woman meets her third cousin and childhood friend John Adams. After the meeting, John Adams, who was then a young,...