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Sojouner Truth

Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2

Sojourner Truth  They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned nine years old, she was sold away from her family to a man near Kingston, New York, named John Neely;...

JFK Assassination Lessons Learned In History 2.

JFK ASsassination…the most important lesson people can learn from History? “If you’re like me, you’ve always loved History. I mean, who doesn’t love the stories of how things got to be the way they are? But if you think about it, there are many more interesting lessons people can learn from History than “here’s what happened in this period.” For example: did you know that on November 22nd, 1963:  A. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F....

Mae Mallory

Mae Mallory (June 9, 1927 – 2007) Mae Mallory was a civil rights activist known for her support of armed self-defense and school integration. Most of all, She was the founder of the “Harlem 9,” a group of nine Black mothers formed to protest the inferior conditions of schools in New York City during the 1950’s. More importantly, Mallory argued that despite the ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education, the zoning policies of the NYC Board of Education, essentially...

Rose in black and white

First Black Woman Aviator in America

In 1915, at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a manicurist. Not long after her move to Chicago, she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots, which sparked her interest in aviation. First Black Woman Aviator—Bessie Coleman In 1922, a time of both gender and racial discrimination, Coleman broke barriers and became the world’s first black woman to earn a pilot’s license. Because flying schools in...