5-Anna Arnold Hedgeman-Born on July 5,1899 in Marshalltown,Iowa, Anna Arnold was a political activist and educator. As a kid,her family was the only family that lived in the Anoka,Minnesoda community. She learned how to read and write at home and didnt attend school untill the age of seven. After high school,she attened Hamline University in St. Paul,Minnesoda. She graduated with a Bachlor`s degree in English. She was the first african american to recieve this degree at this university. While she was in college,she heard Dr.W.E.B DuBois give a speech that made her want to become a teacher. After she graduated from college,she accepted a teaching job at Rust College in Holly Springs,Mississipi and taught english and history for two years. While in Missippi,she experienced racial segregation and discrimination for the first time,witch motivated her to join the civil rights movement. …show more content…
Between 1924 and 1938,she was the executive director of YWCA facilities in Springfield,Ohio,Jersey City,New Jersey,Harlem,Philidelphia,Pennsylvania and Brooklyn. She married Merritt A Hedgeman in 1936. In addition,she was also the excutive director of the National Committee for a Permanet Fair Employment Practices Commission,she briefly served as the assistant Deam of Women at Howard University,as public relations consultant for Fuller Products Company,as a associate editor,columnist for the New York Age. And she also worked for the Harry Truman Presidential campaign. Besides her being the first black woman to have a Bachlor`s degree in English,she was also the first black woman to serve to hold the position in the cabniet of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr from 1954 to 1958. All of her success made her a well respected civic leader by the early
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a unique and vital character in American history. She played an imperative role in the equality and advancement of not just African-American women, but women in general. Although she was born a free women in Maryland she had an unparalleled knack for describing and capturing the evils and horrors of slavery. She wrote a plethora of novels, short stories and poems. In her early years she taught in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, after leaving teaching she left teaching to lecture for the Maine Anti-slavery society along with other anti-slavery organizations. She also worked to help fugitive slaves escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Frances E. W. Harper was an impeccable writer and human being, she made unmatched contributions to history through her works as an equal rights activist and beautifully captures the identity of
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a newspaper editor and journalist who went on to lead the American anti-lynching crusade. Working closely with both African-American community leaders and American suffragists, Wells worked to raise gender issues within the "Race Question" and race issues within the "Woman Question." Wells was born the daughter of slaves in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. During Reconstruction, she was educated at a Missouri Freedman's School, Rust University, and began teaching school at the age of fourteen. In 1884, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she continued to teach while attending Fisk University during summer sessions. In Tennessee, especially, she was appalled at the poor treatment she and other African-Americans received. After she was forcibly removed from her seat for refusing to move to a "colored car" on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Tennessee Supreme Court rejected her suit against the railroad for violating her civil rights in 1877. This event and the legal struggle that followed it, however, encouraged Wells to continue to oppose racial injustice toward African-Americans. She took up journalism in addition to school teaching, and in 1891, after she had written several newspaper articles critical of the educational opportunities afforded African-American students, her teaching contract was not renewed. Effectively barred from teaching, she invested her savings in a part-inte...
Anne Moody had thought about joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), but she never did until she found out one of her roommates at Tougaloo college was the secretary. Her roommate asked, “why don’t you become a member” (248), so Anne did. Once she went to a meeting, she became actively involved. She was always participating in various freedom marches, would go out into the community to get black people to register to vote. She always seemed to be working on getting support from the black community, sometimes to the point of exhaustion. Son after she joined the NAACP, she met a girl that was the secretary to the ...
Smith, J, & Phelps, S (1992). Notable Black American Women, (1st Ed). Detroit, MI: Gale
Her parents nurtured the background of this crusader to make her a great spokesperson. She also held positions throughout her life that allowed her to learn a lot about lynching. She was fueled by her natural drive to search for the truth.
She authored numerous sociological texts that are still referenced today, and was responsible for incorporating research and statistical data into the legislative process. She also initiated several investigations into child labor infractions in factories across the country. Her help in drafting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Social Security Act of 1935 provided a foundation for the future of social security. Her extensive contributions to the betterment of conditions for numerous disenfranchised groups earned her the title of one of American history’s most influential women, and in 1976 she was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame (New World Encyclopedia, 2017).
She started out as a guest lecturer speaking out against slavery. Stone was a known as a major abolitionist in the pre-civil war period. At this time, the other Women’s rights leaders wondered if her abolition speaking would take away from their cause.
She was revered by many people in her time, a time when women struggled to get that reverence. At the university, she was Dean of Women, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents from 1951 to 1959, and Special Assistant to the University President John Schaefer. My mother told me that
It was also concluded that she might have suffered brain damage, and she could not change her ways in order to obey the law. At the end of the trial, the jury unanimously decided to convict her to the death penalty. The reasoning behind this was that there were five total aggravating circumstances and only one mitigating factor. The final decision of the jury was that, although she had obvious mental problems, she knew when she was doing the work.
Soror Ethel Hedgeman Lyle is considered our utmost visionary leader and one of the 16 founders of our beloved sorority. Her vision, was to create an organization for college aged women to build a sisterhood and serve the community. As we can see, her vision has created an international organization that continues to greatly impact the world. Visionary leadership turns a vision into reality. How does one begin to bestow their vision on to others?
This reaction paper is about Ida B Wells. Throughout this paper you will learn about this woman and her achievements. How she fought until the very end, and how she used the press to get what she wanted. Wells was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, but this did not stop her or slow her down. After slavery Wells and her mother got a chance to go to school that taught them how to read and write. Growing up in the reconstruction period and living in the cruel Jim Crow south she decided to fight back. Not with her fist but with her pen. Wells became a journalist, agitator, and reformer. She fought against lynching, women’s rights, racial injustice, and much more. Through her pen she was able to write history.
“Throughout her professional life, [Anna Julia Cooper] advocated equal rights for women of color...and was particularly concerned with the civil, educational, and economic rights of Black women” (Thomas & Jackson, 2007, p. 363).
As America gained its Independence in 1776, two groups, blacks and women, were disenfranchised from the newly found freedom of the nation. However, there were no shortage of individuals and groups that worked towards equal rights and justice for all. For African-Americans, and women in some respect, one of the trailblazers who fought racism, inequality, and injustice was Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery six months before President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Wells was a fierce civil rights leader, activist, suffragist, and journalist; but was best known as a fearless anti-lynching crusader.
Another way she showed women how to be successful was by being one of the first female brokers on wall street. She came upon this new job with the help of Cornelius Vanderbilt that gave her and her sister stock tips. This was amazing for a women to be doing what she was doing because women then only had small time jobs. This was not the only way she changed the history for