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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century American women writers. It includes 19th-century American women writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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The last chapter details more modern fiction written by black women, while also focusing on individual writers. [3] Carby argues that literature by American black women started a new "black womanhood" during the 1800s and that the 19th century was the "first writing renaissance" for those writers rather than the 1970s. [4]
He helped found one of the first black literary societies in the U.S known as the Reading Room Society whose constitution stated that its aim was the "mental improvement of the people of color in the neighborhood of Philadelphia." [1] William Whipper epitomized the prosperity that Northern Blacks were able to attain in the mid-19th century.
Maria Stewart was the first American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men, women, both Black and white (termed a "promiscuous" audience during the early 19th century). [4] She was also the first African American woman to lecture on women's rights , focusing particularly on the rights of Black women, religion, and social justice.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century African-American people. It includes 19th-century African-American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
African-American women screenwriters (53 P) Pages in category "African-American women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 276 total.
In the early 1890s, Matthews became more involved in the African-American political and social circles. On October 5, 1892, Victoria Earle Matthews and educator and activist, Maritcha Remond Lyons, organized a testimonial dinner in New York's Lyric Hall for Ida B. Wells and her anti-lynching campaign which led to the founding of the Woman's Loyal Union of New York and Brooklyn.