Black Women’s History
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding...
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a person’s future to become what it becomes.” Azie Taylor Morton is distinguished as...
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court....
Ora Mae Washington was an African-American tennis player known as the “Queen of Tennis” in her Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington was an accomplished all-around athlete, excelling in both tennis and basketball. In...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illa B. Brown was the first African-American woman to become a licensed pilot in the United States....
On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive enslaver, Robert Newsom. In 1850, Celia was sold to Robert Newsom when she...
Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and...
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
The Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Women’s War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was occupied by the British to redress social, political, and economic grievances. The protest,...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
