The Life of Patricia Roberts Harris

Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman to be elected to Congress was born in Brooklyn on November 30, 1924. She is one of the most profound and admired women that challenged society not only as a woman, but a woman of color. She made many contributions to the women's movement and society.

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

She was a black woman in the 1900’s. “Why is she so dark?” asked her father Ben Jordan when she was first born. Jordan was the first black woman to have a seat in the congress and in the Texas state senate, that means that she had to work with men. Men that probably didn’t think much of her because she was black and a woman, also because women weren’t respected very much then. She made it clear to the men who worked on the Texas Legislature and the United States Congress that she would never betray her people but that everything else was on the table.

She showed them that they could be equal. The only difference was the color of the skin. She taught them that that wasn’t even a big difference. She fought segregation her entire life.

Anne Dallas Dudley, left quite a legacy. Before her great accomplishments and activism that she would become well known for today, she came from a family of many achievements. Dudley learned early on about philanthropy and civic service from many generations of men in her family. Just to name a few: her grandfather, Alexander J. Dallas, was a commodore in the U.S Navy, her great uncle, George M. Dallas, served as vice president of the United States under James K. Polk where he led statehood to Texas, and her father, Trevanion B. Dallas, was an entrepreneur in the textile business in the late 1800’s

In 1932 Hope became the first vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples Atlanta chapter. During her tenure she oversaw the creation of "citizenship schools," basic six-week course that help African Americans get into politics and government. Shortly after her husband John Hope died but Lugenia went on to accomplish much more before her death on August 14, 1947. Cited evidence:

The assignation of Martin Luther King had a large impact on her decision to stay at MIT. Jackson’s main motivation was to improve the quality of education for minorities and women. To do this, she had to stay and face that adversity herself. In 1973 Jackson earned her Ph.D. from MIT, the first African American women

Harris- Perry is an author, professor, television host and commentator with a focus on Political Science concentration on African Americans. She is

Patricia Hill Collins is an extremely compelling current social scientist whose work represents itself with no issue. From a youthful age she started to look into the complex cooperation 's between race, class, and sex as an African American young lady experiencing childhood in a working people Philadelphia neighborhood amid the 1950s. Her mother taught her the power that an education can have on one 's life in this way, Collins didn 't just become the first person in her family to move on after receiving her bachelor 's, she proceeded to from graduate school where she earned both her master 's. She was the only girl born to Albert Hill and Eunice Randolph Hill. Their occupations were an assembly line laborer and secretary deferentially. She earned her bachelor 's in social studies from Brandeis University in 1969. She later earned an experts of Arts degree in educating from Harvard University in 1970. She has numerous achievements that she is even now gaining right up 'til today. She was chosen as president of the American Sociological Association or ASA and was the first African American lady in this position. She likewise has a discriminatingly acclaimed book called "Dark Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness, and the Power of Empowerment." It is taught in excess of 200 colleges across the nation. She is most known for her hypothesis of intersectionality and the matrix of domination.

After her marriage, Mrs. Parks finished high school, and also attended classes at Alabama State University. From 1943 to 1955 she was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, and worked with E. D. Nixon to encourage blacks to register and vote. In 1948 she served as state secretary of the Alabama NAACP.

In 1955, during a sensitive and memorable moment for Black Americans, a time of legalized segregation; Jim Crow, an African American girl was born by the name of Condoleezza Rice. With that being a huge obstacle to face from her and her entire family, as well as living in Birmingham, Alabama, popular South area where many other African Americans popularly known during this time fought for equal rights and later fought for equality during the Civil War, Condoleezza would be widely known for living through a historical moment and making history in many ways. Condoleezza Rice was born November 14th 1954 in Birmingham Alabama. She was the only child Raised by both parents. Her mother Angelena Rice and Father John Wesley Rice Jr who were both educators. Growing up in Alabama during segregation and Jim Crowe laws Condoleezza parents wanted her to never feel excluded. They wanted her to know that anything she believed she could do was possible and any opportunity they can create or give her will be hers. So, that is exactly what they did and they knew with this mentality and support system they were to raise a very optimistic, well rounded, educated, and fierce black woman. Condoleezza Rice today has been in many important roles in the United States. These roles are the

In the fictional story Dealing with Dragons Patricia Wrede tells the tale of an improper princess who ignores the expected norms of society of her day. Cimorene is justified in ignoring expected social norms of the day because it did benefit her life but some people may disagree.

Ella was apart of the SCLC , SNCC,and NAACP, through those organizations Ella was able to help many lives. To begin, according to Susan Gushee O’Malley “She was named acting director of the SCLC and set about organizing the crusade to open simultaneously in twenty-one cities.”Ella just started to work for the SCLC ( southern christian leadership conference) in 1960. The purpose of SCLC was to keep black-based movement churches in touch with each other so they can work together for the rights of colored people. Second, according to msbush.wikispaces.com “She helped form what is known as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which helped show student's involvement in the civil rights movement, through nonviolent protest. This organization helped form Freedom Summer; an event which focused America's attention on the racism that occurred in Mississippi,

Rita Bardor stood outside the porch in front of her house. Life in Germany was not always peaceful before the war, but at least there was not any conundrum as to how life was going to be. Her parents were inside the house, bickering whether to flee or not to the United States. In between the verbal fight going on with her parents, Rita stared up in the sky, with a look of aspiration. She had planned to become a nurse, but with the onslaught of the Second World War, it seemed to her that the future was only about surviving, at any costs.s

My name is Pai Harris; I was born in West Africa, Liberia. And I have a story to tell. This story is some of my memories from my childhood. All the memories from my early childhood are still vivid. One of my earliest memories, and the most horrifying one, was the civil war that took place in West Africa when I was a child. A war that destroyed the country left us homeless and with a painful scar in the heart of the people that experienced it. Even though I was about seven and the half, I remember seeing people being killed in front of me and male children who were about eight and above being ripped from the arms of their parents so that they could join the war. Parents were crying here and there wondering where their children were and if