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Dec 31, 1979 · Three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells, th firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell, a ...
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May 15, 2024 · The current COVID-19 pandemic has starkly illuminated the enduring disparities that have long afflicted Black communities, echoing the systemic injustices documented in "Black Foremothers: Three Lives" by Dorothy Sterling.
Jun 9, 2020 · How Black Lives Matter Began: Meet the Women Whose Hashtag Turned Into a Global Movement. Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi started with social media in the wake of the...
Scope and Contents. The Gladys-Marie Fry papers contain correspondence, drafts, publications, photographs, slides, research proposals, posters, newsclippings, and other materials relating to her extensive research of African-American folklore, quilts, and other topics.
Black Lives Matter: The three women who founded a global movement. The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things - not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around...
Alicia Garza launched a global movement with a single Facebook post that ended with the words: “Black lives matter.”. Activist Patrisse Cullors created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter as a tonic against years of injustice by police forces and prisons.
Black Lives Matter is a phrase, and notably a hashtag, used to highlight racism, discrimination and inequality experienced by black people. Its use grew in the US after high-profile killings...
