Recommended: Essays on mary mcleod bethune
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a educator and activist. Mary McLeod was Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the last of seventeen children, and fortunately was born in freedom. When a school for black children opened the McLeod family had to make a decision. They only had enough money to send one child and McLeod was chosen.
Mary Godfrey was born on July 3, 1913 . While her obituary states that she was born in the small southern town, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, in a personal interview, Godfrey’s states she was born in New York, but people would like to think she is from Virginia (Hollingsworth, 1998, p. 200). At some point, Godfrey’s family migrated from Charlotte Court House, Virginia to New York City. Godfrey was one of eight children of Henry B. Godfrey and Louise Read. Her older sister, Cleveland Community Activist and journalist, Stella Godfrey White Bigham was the first African American woman to sit on the Cleveland Transit System board whose work promoted interracial understanding.
She began teaching at age 14 and even found a school for girls, the Dix Mansion. It was a school for girls who didn’t have the money to go to a school and allowed them to attend for free. She even wrote textbooks and her book Conversations on Common
Born into slavery, she is known as the first black woman in the United States to graduate from an four-year college. Mary Jane Patterson taught at the Institute for Colored Youths in Philadelphia, and took
Mary Walker was an avid women’s rights activist. She spent her entire life working towards equality for women, specifically trying to change the ways women dressed. Along with being an activist, Walker was an extremely talented physician. This woman flourished in her field of work and was one of the only women in this line of work at the time. On top of all of her achievements in life, Mary Walker is the only woman to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Imagine growing up on a cotton plantation to former slaves in Delta, becoming an “orphan at the age of 7, becoming a wife at the age of 14, a mother at 17 and a widow at 20?” This all describes the early life of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J Walker. “She supported her family by washing laundry and she used her earning as a laundress to pay for her daughter’s education at Knoxville College” .In 1889, Madam C.J Walker moved to St. Louis in search of a better future.
Marguerite Annie Johnson was born on April 4, 1928. Her beloved brother, Bailey, less than two years her senior, referred to her as, “My or Mya Sister”, and she became known as Maya. When she was three her parents divorced, and her father placed both her and her brother on a train to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with his mother. Stamps was a highly segregated small southern town. Their grandmother, Annie Johnson, owned a small general store that sold basic commodities to mainly black customers.
Cleo Clayton is my second interview; she’s a 40 years old Jamaican American woman working class. The role that class race gender has played in her life is that she’s always had to work harder and smarter to make it in the corporate world, because she believes that all the odds are against her due to the fact that she’s a black women and she is also from a foreign country. Coming from a beautiful blended family’s that have a strong connection, when she turn 30 her mother diseased and her father was very involve in their family lives. Be that as it may both of her grand parents were very active and involves in their lives, always encouraging and continuously pushing her and her siblings to persuade their education and to strive for better
In this generation, there is little to no mention of influential people in Canadian history who have significantly contributed to shaping this country’s diversity. More specifically, the mention of black Canadian women who have actively challenged how we perceive race and equality. Mary Ann Shadd is one of these women, for she used her knowledge and understanding of the importance of equality throughout Canada to break down barriers set upon African-Americans. Mary Ann Shadd, an abolitionist edited and published a newspaper specifically directed towards African Americans, created an educating school for all races and encouraged many African Americans to emigrate to Canada. Acknowledging these achievements, Mary Ann Shadd is a great role model
She became widely recognized for her speech, “Education and the Elevation of the Colored Race”, participated in the underground railroad (helping slaves escape to Canada), and fought African American’s and women’s rights. Harper is a cofounder/ vice president of the National Association of Colored Women is known as the, “Mother of African American Journalism” and. Decades after her passing (February 22,1911),
Terrell recognized the limitations that African Americans had in the mainstream society because of their race and gender. March Church Terrell’s personal experience and witnessing family experience racism and racial violence and what informed her activism. Known as Mollie to her family and friends, Mary Church Terrell was born on September
Her tragedy reflects not only the sexism in the African American families in early 20th century, but also the uselessness
Her mother died shortly after her birth leaving her father to care for her and her half-sister, Fanny Imlay. The dynamic of her family soon changed when her father remarried. Mary was treated poorly by her new stepmother, and her quality of life was less than satisfactory. Her step-siblings were allowed to receive an education while Mary stayed at home. She found comfort in reading, and created stories in her father’s library.
Mary Borden was born 1886 in Chicago, IL. Close friends and family called her May, she was the daughter of a famous Chicago millionaire. Her mother converted to a form of evangelicalism and as soon as Mary was old enough to escape, she did. Mary moved to India first, here she married and had two daughters. This life was as claustrophobic as the one before she moved.
Her father had held a position under the English Government and was stationed in India where Mary was born there but unfortunately cholera had swept off nearly the entire village including her
