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Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]
A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and A Few Good Women is based on the "A Few Good Women" oral history project. In a two-part format, the book first focuses on the historical narrative of the Nixon administration's efforts to bring women into high-level government positions, Franklin's specific efforts ...
Silent Grace is a 2001 Irish feature film written and directed by Maeve Murphy.A fictional story based on real events, covering the untold story of Republican women prisoners involvement in the 1980/81 Dirty Protest and first hunger strike. It is about friendship and survival.
Maria Stewart was born Maria Miller in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut to free African American parents. In 1806, by the age of three, she lost both parents and was sent to live with a white minister and his family where she worked as an indentured servant until around the age of 15, where she received no formal education.
She refers to women as "sympathetic warmth and sunshine". Cooper explains how the jobs of women have changed since the Pioneer days to the Civil Rights Movement. She references the start of the Women's rights movement, giving credit to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), and bringing attention to the struggles of Black Women ...
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
Nwapa's first book, Efuru, was published in 1966 when she was 30 years old, and is considered a pioneering work as an English-Language novel by an African woman writer. [2] She sent the transcript to the famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1962, who replied with a very positive letter and even included money for the postage to mail the ...
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother is a 2011 book by former The New York Times journalist Janny Scott.It is a biography of Ann Dunham, the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.