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African American women of the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) played a significant role to its impact and success. Women involved participated in sit-ins and other political movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955). Organizations and other political demonstrations sparked change for the likes of equity and equality, women's ...
Erika "Ika" Hügel-Marshall (13 March 1947 – 21 April 2022) [1] was a German author and activist. She was active in the Afro-German women's movement organization ADEFRA (Afro-Deutsche Frauen). Her autobiography, Daheim unterwegs. Ein deutsches Leben (published in English as Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany), discusses racism in ...
Chatto & Windus. Publication date. 2019. Publication place. Great Britain. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a 2019 book by British feminist author Caroline Criado Perez. The book describes the adverse effects on women caused by gender bias in big data collection.
Browning was born and raised in rural Georgia, and started college in 1959 at Georgia State College for Women at the age of sixteen. [1] [2]: 228 While there she began to be involved in the freedom rider movement, [3] and her involvement in the movement ultimately led to her 1961 dismissal from the college because of her decision to attend a black church.
McCree Harris. McCree L. Harris (July 10, 1934 – July 21, 2000) was an American educator and political activist leader. Harris worked at the all-Black Monroe Comprehensive High School, where she taught Latin, French, and Social Studies. She is best known for her participation with the Freedom Singers and for encouraging her students ...
ISBN. 978-0-375-76021-1 (Paperback) Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, published in 2006 is an analysis on society's views on race and sexuality and a collection of autobiographical anecdotes. Kenji Yoshino, the author, is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law.
Black feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses on the African-American woman's experiences and recognizes the intersectionality of racism and sexism. Black feminism philosophy centers on the idea that "Black women are inherently valuable, that liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as human ...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]