Inez Beverly Prosser's Life And Accomplishments

In the southwest borderlands of the United States and Mexico between 1994 and 2009. The exact could have been just another statistic nameless and faceless. The author Margaret Regan reconstructs josselines last days and transforms her into a symbol for all of the immigrants who have died crossing into the United States. The little brother makes it to L.A then to tell the devastating news on what he had in stored for his mother. The mother began to breakdown in tears because at that moment she could bear with the fact that her little girl past away.

During the nineteenth century, Harriet Tubman was one of 1,538,000 brave people enduring the slave life (10). Tubman was born with the name Araminta Ross, but once she became a teenager, she decided that Harriet was a better name for her. Thinking she was an average-looking slave, and being only five feet tall with short, crinkly black hair, deep brown eyes, and big lips, she decided a common slave name suited her well (21). Slavery not only took away freedom from the African-Americans, but it also took away their individuality. Tubman no longer felt she could live with the name she had been given because she thought it made her unique, which she believed she was not.

At the Smithfield Court Community Center on Sept. 30 the Smithfield Court/ Elyton Walk club acknowledged Miles College senior social work major Tiffany Taylor who was presented a $5,802 scholarship from the Housing Authority Birmingham District. Taylor decided at an early age that she wanted to further her education. She has seen many people from her neighborhood lose their lives from being in the streets and didn 't want to be another statistic. Miles College was her first choice because it is a Historically Black College and University. "To further my education at a HBCU means that I am receiving the best education by teachers who look just like me."

8-Steptima Poinsette Clark-Born on May 3rd,1898 in Charleston,South Carolina,Steptima is another african american woman who helped African american get the rights to vote. Her father had been born a slave. Both of her parent heavely encouraged her to get a good eduation. After attending public shool,she attended Avery Normal Institude,a private school for african americans. She tried to be a teacher,but since Charleston did not hire african americans to teach it`s public schools,so instead she became a teacher at South Carolina`s Johns Island in 1916.

Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas on January 26, 1892 and later passed away in April of 1926; she was only 34 years old. Bessie was born to George and Susan Coleman and had 12 brothers and sisters; she was one of 13 children. The family lived in constant struggle because they had to deal with the conflicts of racism and poverty. As a result, Coleman’s father left the family in search of better opportunities, thus forcing the mother to assume all responsibility for all 13 children. At 12 years old, Coleman attended the Missionary Baptist Church in Texas and graduated.

On social media, I witnessed Rachel Dolezal practicing racial mimicry. She is a white woman who identifies herself black. While growing up, Rachel had blonde hair and blue eyes. In 2007, she became distant from her parents as she began adopting her African-American identity. She created a new image of herself by buying spray tans to darken her skin.

Biography of Zora Neale Hurston African American author, folklorist, anthropologist, and Harlem Renaissance figure, her works and contributions to the world of literature acknowledge her as one of the great writers of our American history. Zora Neale Hurston, born in Notasulga, Alabama on January 7, 1891 to former slaves John and Lucy Potts Hurston, was the fifth child and second girl out of eight children. Her birth records have never been found, so the singular year of her birth has long been a dispute (Bloom 7). In the family bible, according to Hurston’s biographers, her name is recorded as Zora Neal Lee Hurston; at some point an “e” was added to Neal and “Lee” was dropped (King 1). In 1893, Lucy, along with Hurston and her siblings, moved to an

Life is weird when you 're being raised by your great grandmother. Born October 30th Estelle was left in the care of her great grandmother since her mother and father weren 't ready for a child yet, both still in high school. Marguerite 's own daughter, Estelle 's grandmother, had passed in a car wreck three years before hand and her son in law wanted nothing to do with the new baby. So Marguerite took the infant Estelle from her birth city of Abbeville, Louisiana and went back to her own home in New Orleans. Raised in a rural environment Estelle was brought up along side the neighbors children and basically allowed to raise hell for most of her childhood.

Suffrage (Voting rights) was a very hard to obtain power in the later 1800s and early 1900s. Women could not vote and african americans could not vote. In the 1920s women finally got the right to vote. Nearly 40 years after women can vote, african americans could too, and that ended segregation when it comes to voting. The voting act of 1965 is linked to the 19th amendment that allows women to vote.

(43-35) Jaggar’s discussion of education’s role in victimization fails to highlight the actual facts surrounding women’s educational levels. She portrays minority women as uneducated; and because minority women are uneducated, they often end up with jobs that typical educated, white women won’t do. According to the National Center For Education Statistics, Black women earned approximately 66% of bachelor 's degrees, 71% of master’s degrees and 71% of all doctoral degrees that were awarded to Black students from 2009-2010. For perspective; in the year 2010, 1,602,480 bachelor’s degrees were earned in the United States. 10.3% of those bachelor’s degrees were awarded to Black people.