She changed the public opinion locally and internationally about racism and also raised awareness about it. The public history vehicles for her history are in many forms. There is a stamp, an apology made, books were
Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who became wildly popular in france during the 1920’s. She had also devoted much of her life to fighting racism. She was a very influential lady in most of our lives. Josephine was born June 3,1906. Her childhood reflected on what she wanted to become in the future such as a singer, dancer, and civil rights activist.
Ransby wrote about the complexity of Ella Baker's life. Ransby stated: "for me, in looking back as Baker's life in all of its rich complexity" (Ransby, Pg). In the writing the biography, Ransby brought to life a person in her writing. Her argument centered on the idea of complexity. The complexity of Baker's life leads to the importance of her legacy.
The year 1930 was not an easy time to be a woman or a minority, but that never stopped Dolores Huerta. Born on April 10 in Dawson, New Mexico, Dolores is the daughter of Juan and Alicia, who worked as farmers and miners. After moving to Stockton, CA with her mother and siblings, Dolores worked hard to get a degree from the University of the Pacific. Soon after her career as an activist truly began when she “co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization, which led voter registration drives and fought for economic improvements for Hispanics” (Michals, 2015). Since she has founded the Agriculture Workers Association, co-founded the National Farmers Workers Association with Casér Chávez, helped organize the 1965 Delano strike of over 5000 grape workers, and served as the Vice President of the United Farm Workers Union.
Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected in the U.S. Congress and run for president as a Democratic candidate. Despite losing the presidential nomination Shirley Chisolm continued to be inspiration for young African American women across the United States. Chisholm was a great orator that used her voice to improve racial inequality and women rights for all Americans. Her speech given on the floor of the House of Representatives in 1968 will forever immortalize Shirley Chisholm’s dedication to improving human rights. The use of fallacies throughout her speech were used to captivate her audience and bring attention to the injustice that was going on in America.
Sara Josephine Baker was a devoted individual who had a major impact on the Progressive era (1890’s-1920s. Although she was faced with obstacles such as discrimination, she managed to overcome issues that could have potentially hindered her ability to educate others on how improve their health. Her main focus was on improving women and children’s health. Using her knowledge of public health, Sara Josephine Baker implemented health plans that proved to be beneficial to society. Going forward, I will further discuss the accomplishments of Sara Josephine Baker and the positive outcome that she had on public health during the progressive era.
Well known at the time, Josephine Baker, gave a heartfelt speech at the walk on Washington. Josephine was the only female speech presenter, but still gave an amazing performance. The speech related to almost every soul in the crowd of 250,000. The anecdotes used almost definitely got across to all of the listeners, and got to their feelings. To break down Miss Baker's speech, her three main points were that she ran, very far, away from home, came back and felt hate, and therefore wanted to change it for the next generation to come.
Born as Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, in Saint Louis. Her mother had dreams of becoming a music-hall dancer, but gave them up to become a mother and washerwoman and her father abandoned them when she was an infant. Most of her time as a youth was spent in poverty. To help support her family, she started cleaning houses and babysitting at the age of eight often being mistreated. At the age of 13 she ran away from home, found work as a waitress at a club where she met her first husband Willie Wells, who she divorced only weeks later.
She was released, but she was forgotten and soon replaced by Rosa Parks. This should not be forgotten. If these people were meant not to be noticed, its something that should not be agreed
Today she is known as the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement and considered as one of the most influential African American women activist/advocate that aided in not only African American rights but human rights as a whole. Born in a small town, Baker was raised watchfully alongside her grandmother, Josephine Elizabeth “Bet” Ross. Her parents, Georgianna Ross and Blake Baker, were overjoyed when she was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Nevertheless, her community started showing Bridges support, whether they were black or white. Some people supported her bravery for going to
She was a woman with an amazing purpose. Rosa risked her life to stand up for what she believed in. In the racist timeline that she lived in, she still decided she had enough. Even though she didn’t appreciate the praise, she still always and forever will deserve being remembered as one of the many great african-american warriors of our time. Even though she didn’t fight in an actual war, she still fought for something near to her heart.
Ella Baker is often overlooked as a Civils Rights leader because she worked for organization with strong male leaders. Baker led by example and always advocated for equality. She pushed for inclusion of all people in the civil rights movement, encouraged others to join the movement, and treated others with respect and appreciation. Ella Baker played a prominent role in the fight for
She advocated for things like freedom of choice for women and for better living along with working conditions for women and men. The life and accomplishments of height and how she fought for the escape from racial and sexual discrimination, and is not mentioned in history classes today, shows how inherently harder it is for women to fight for justice during the civil rights movement. Women activist, like Height have had to fight a two-front war, one being that of racism and the other being that of sexism. The fight for justice has always been different for men and women. Even if men are being persecuted
When Rosa Parks got an arrest, it had started a resolution. When Rosa didn't get up from her seat for a white man, the driver called the police and arrested her. So at her court date, the African Americans had started a boycott. The Africans have to seat in the back of the bus in the colored section. Because Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man; she started a revolution and the fight for equal rights for black people.