My final dissertation was titled, “The reasons why black women have been neglected from the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement.” So naturally this month I will highlight some of the badass black women who paved the way for progress but that history seldom remembers
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My fave… Jo Ann Robinson - 1st generation college graduate who went on to become a teacher. Following overt discrimination in Montgomery, Jo Ann and her friends stayed up one night to print off 36000 pamphlets calling for a one day bus boycott. The boycott lasted 381 days.
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Isabella Baumfree aka Sojourner Truth — born into enslavement, she escaped to freedom with her daughter then fought through the courts to win her son back, becoming the 1st AA woman to win a case against a white man. She fought for abolition, suffrage and temperance ✊🏽
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Today I am highlighting the political pioneer of British-Jamaican Diane Abbott, MP. Born to Jamaican Parents, Diane has served as a Member of Parliament for the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Boroughs since 1987. She is the 1st and longest black woman elected to parliament ✊🏽
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Fannie Lou Hamer. What a woman. She fought for political freedom for black women in Mississippi. A prominent leader in SNCC, she helped lead the freedom summer in 1964 - just two years after she moved off the plantation where her and her family were sharecroppers.
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Last one for the month. This is Ms. Glover (standing addressing our scholars), she was a leader of the sit in movement in Memphis. We got to listen to her speak last week on Sankofa, in a diner that she fought for us to be able to sit in. Thank you, Ms. Glover for paving the way.
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