Category: Resilience

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Jessie Redmon Fauset

3/18/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Editor, writer, and civil rights activist (1882 – 1961)

Literary editor of the NAACP’s magazine “Crisis”
Among those credited with ushering in a new wave of African-American literature
One of the first African-American people to graduate from Cornell University
Wrote four novels focusing on the theme of human relationships in the midst of racial and sexual barriers

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

3/17/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

Labor agitator (1830 – 1930)

Born in County Cork, Ireland and emigrated to the United States as a child
Became a labor organizer after her husband and children died of yellow fever and losing her dressmaking business in the Chicago fire
A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, Jones traveled to organize garment workers, steelworkers, and miners
Child labor abolitionist who led a march of child textile workers to Theodore Roosevelt’s home in 1903
Motto: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living”

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mourning Dove

3/16/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Mourning Dove

Author (c. 1882 – 1936)

After being forced into mission education, Mourning Dove became a writer to raise awareness of Native culture in white America
Her novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range was one of the first by a Native woman to depict a female protagonist
Cogewea depicts the challenges of being multiracial and Native American perspectives on religion
Mourning Dove’s story collection Coyote Stories is a collection of what she termed Native American folklore

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mary Wollstonecraft

3/15/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer, philosopher, women’s rights advocate (1759 – 1797)

Wrote treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book before the age of 38
Best known for “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, which challenged the popular “Rights of Man” and argued that women were subjugated to men and made to appear inferior through lack of education and resources
Argued that men and women should be treated equally in a society based on reason
Died giving birth to her second daughter, writer Mary Shelley

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Corazon Aquino

3/14/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Corazon Aquino

President of the Philippines (1933 – 2009)

Eleventh president of the Philippines and first woman to hold the presidential office
Lead a popular uprising after the assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno Aquino
Rose to prominence for her leadership in the “people power” revolution against the dictatorial government, which toppled the 21-year rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos
Oversaw the rewriting of the Constitution to limit presidential power
Emphasized civil rights and human rights in her leadership and emphasized civil liberties and human rights in her administration
Urged peace talks to resolve the ongoing Communist insurgency and Islamist secession movements

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ethel Payne

3/12/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Ethel L. Payne

Journalist (1911 – 1991)

Known as “First Lady of the Black Press”
Known for straightforward observations and writing style, Payne was persistent and “asked the questions [other journalists] should have been asking”
Confrontation with Eisenhower over plans for desegregating interstate travel became front page news
After in-depth coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, she turned to international affairs in the 1970s and became the first black female news commentator, working for CBS

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ella Baker

3/10/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Ella Baker

Civil rights and human rights activist (1903 – 1986)

Organized students to participate in sit-ins across the South in 1960
Formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Helped organize voter registration projects with the SNCC, and served as director of NAACP branches, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership, and was crucial in forming the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Believed in grassroots activism that stresses the importance of ordinary people rather than individual leaders

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Rachel Carson

3/9/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we're celebrating:

Rachel Carson

Marine biologist, editor, and author (1907 – 1964)

Began her career as an aquatic biologist and became a fulltime writer in 1950
Combined her love of science and literature in her career as an editor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Her book “Silent Spring” exposed the dangers of unrestricted use of chemical pesticides and became a catalyst for environmental movements in the U.S.
Continued to speak out for need for greater oversight of technological progress, despite the pesticide industry’s attempts to undermine her findings

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Patricia Roberts Harris

3/7/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Patricia Roberts Harris

Lawyer, public official, and activist (1924 – 1985)

Taught and worked as an administrator at Howard University, her alma mater
Lead NAACP chapter and participated in social welfare and civil rights initiatives
Appointed ambassador to Luxembourg in 1965
Later became Housing and Urban Development and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Health and Human Services)

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Therese Bonney

3/5/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we're celebrating:

M. Therese Bonney
Photographer (1894 – 1978)

American photographer and publicist in Paris between the world wars
Photographed the effects of war on civilians on the Franco-Russian front during the outbreak of World War II
Amassed an unprecedented collection of photographic evidence of military events on “truth raids”
Became a collector, exhibitor, and curator of the arts and a figure in literary circles after the war

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Corazon Aquino

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ethel Payne

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