Share Part 5: Historical Firsts This list is a celebration of the black women who have blazed trails and paved the way for us to continue on to further success. My hat goes off to these ladies who boldly went where other black women had not gone before. Madame C.J. Walker Althea Gibson [...]
Share Part 4: Civil Rights Leaders The pioneers featured for today are not just limited to the Civil Rights Era of the 1950s. During and after slavery, black women were visible advocates for our equal rights. Hopefully this list will inspire you to take part in the ongoing fight that exists today in your [...]
Share Singing and Acting SheRoes Hattie McDaniel Dorothy Dandridge Josephine Baker Hattie McDaniel – the first black actor to win an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in 1939′s Gone With The Wind. About playing the role of a servant, she said, “It’s better to [...]
Share Arts and Fashion SheRoes Toni Morrison Alice Walker Maya Angelou Lorraine Hansberry Toni Morrison – in 1982 became the first black winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Gwendolyn Brooks – first black winner of the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950 for Annie Allen Alice Walker – first black woman to win the Pulitzer [...]
Share Black History Month was originally instituted as “Negro History Week” in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson. By the time I entered high school in 1994, Black History Month became a time to recite the same often regurgitated facts about Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Malcolm X and a small number of [...]
