Famous Feminists Adams, Abigail (1744-1818). Adams was a prolific writer, patriot, abolitionist, and early feminist. In her famous correspondence to her husband, she spoke eloquently against slavery, many years before the abolitionist movement, and on behalf of women. Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906.
Among the painful experiences she endures, she also has some hopeful experiences; such as, when she is taken to New York and the British get her to document information about the black people who have been sent away. Her literacy skills are invaluable as they write a book called The Book of Negroes. She then heads to Nova Scotia, and then Sierra Leone where she helps the British establish a colony and finally to London where as an old woman she plays a key role helping the abolitionists campaign to abolish slavery by retelling her story and revealing the brutal and unjust ways the slaves were treated. She becomes the “face” of the campaign. The movie The Color Purple that is based on a book by Alice Walker shares many of the same themes as The Book of Negroes.
Mary was the first black women appointed to the Board of Education, she became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and she was the first women president of the Bethel Literary and Historical Society. Mary speaks about the trials and tribulations African Americans had to endure during the early 1900’s, and how situations continue to worsen as time goes on. In her speech she goes on to make references how colored people are not being treated fairly and with dignity she believes they deserve. She makes it easy for her listeners to understand these injustices by referencing topics her audience can relate to. Her story about how a young colored women was turned away from a job just because the color of her skin can be linked with how women with higher capabilities than their male counterparts are still not receiving the position.
She is most popular with her book, The Vagina Monologues. In 1998, she was inspired to create V-Day, which is a movement to stop violence against women and girls. She has written numerous articles for numerous magazines and has received many awards for her work. The Vagina Monologues was written in 1996. The book consists of monologues by a various number of women.
Gluck completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College (the Great Books College of Chicago) in Illinois and completed advanced degree work at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley. Additional publications include ‘Women’s Words the Feminist Practice of Oral History (1991) and ‘An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years’ (1994). Gluck’s Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The War, and Social Change is a collection of detailed oral histories that not only chronicle the lives of the ‘Rosie the Riveters’ (working-women during the WWII years), but encompasses the pre-war and post-war years of each interviewee. Gluck intertwines these interviews in such a way that she presents a somewhat comprehensive understanding of the daily routines of these ‘Rosie the Riveters.’ In addition to the personal experience aspect of her interviews, Gluck also directly busts the misrepresented mentality of women laying down tools and happily giving up their jobs to the returning military men. Gluck argues that the ‘Rosie’ era was bigger than the players involved and that it had direct effects on women’s accepted skill sets and ‘place’ within the working sector over the 3 decades following the end of WWII.
Keywords: Elizabeth Ross Haynes; History; African Americans; Women; Social Welfare; Labor An African American Reformer of Womanist Consciousness 1908-1940 Like most African American women of her time Haynes considered herself as a role model, she kept herself involved in researching, writing, and speaking about the issues of women’s labor, women’s roles in the political arena and the use of women’s talents and skills. She can be described as one of the most important pioneer in the women’s movement of the Progressive Era and beyond. Elizabeth Haynes was virtually ignored in the studies of women’s contributions to social welfare history and to the development of social welfare and institutions for African Americans and their community. The visibility of African American women in these times leaves gaps in the social workers’ perception that
in History, but the passing of one of her biggest inspirations, her grandmother Louvenia Watson, caused her great suffering. This tragedy led to the production of powerful poems and essays, which essentially became her most significant outlet and by 1968, Giovanni published the first volume of her book of poems, Black Feeling Black Talk. This volume includes the poem Nikki-Rosa, one that gives a first hand account of the life of a young African American girl growing up in the heat of racism and violence. Immediately, the title Nikki-Rosa indicates that the poem will discuss Giovanni’s childhood, seeing as how the poem is given the title of the nickname Giovanni was given in the early years of her adolescence. In addition, the first shift directly comments on an area known as “Woodlawn,” (line 3) a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio where Giovanni briefly resided.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sufferage/home.htm Meredith Goldstein-LeVande provided useful information on the anti-sufferage movement. Modern Times Secondary Sources: Banner, Lois W. Women in Modern America, A Brief History. USA. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1974. Ms.
This accident caused Alice to transform from the happy, self-confident eight year old she was into an isolated depressed adolescent who retreated into reading stories and writing poems as an outlet. This escape made Walker more conscience of other people and their feelings, and she rose from the despair that her disability caused her to become a leader and the valedictorian of her high school class. (African-American Writers: A Dictionary) Overcoming the isolation caused by her disability and the civil rights era gave Walker a perfect recipe for an in-depth novel about the alienation of a black woman in the beginning of the century. Celie is introduced to us as a victim of abuse, from the very first letter she writes. Celie’s only form of communication with the outside world is her
Dealing with social conditions like slavery, structural racism, poverty and a denial of education, they called attention to the needs of black women in the U.S. in their own unique ways Walker had made purple the symbol of African-american womanhookd inher novel the color purple 1982 which inaugurated a decade of majour fictionby African-american woman writere. The colou purpe is an epistolary novel, combining the letter of two black sisters from rural Georgia in the early 1900s, Nettie and Celie and also also touching on taboo themes of estrangement between black women and men bisexuality, sexual abuse and incest. Celie is the brutalized sister, raped by the man she believes is her father, forced to give up her children for adoption, and sold into the marriage in which she is beaten, exploited and deprived . Nettie the more educated sister, escapes joins the black missionary movement in African and eventually marries the widowed missionary she accompanies. Her letters describe an African villag and tribe, the