2012
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Vor 5 Tagen · Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, expressed that the best way black women could help themselves was to help their men gain equality.
- 1960s – 1980s
- Institutional sexism
- Worldwide
- Equality for women, General human rights for all people
Vor 3 Stunden · Dorothy Height, another of Angelou’s inspirations, also taught her to rise above the stereotypes that encompassed her as a minority in order to empower other women. Height urged Angelou to fight for the empowerment of her peers, which she later in life attempted to do. Who Maya Angelou was influenced by was an ongoing narrative in her life ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known activists as Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Lillian Smith, Mamie Till-Mobley, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Height, and Rosa Parks. They also include speeches from lesser-known but influential ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
- Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott...
- When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the cit...
- Rosa Parks was not the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus, though her story attracted the most attention nationwid...
- In 1992 Rosa Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography written with Jim Haskins that described her role in the American civil rights m...
Vor 2 Tagen · Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (/ oʊ ˈ r ɪər d ən / oh-REER-dən; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician who was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the alternative rock band The Cranberries.
Vor 2 Tagen · Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. She attained international stardom and critical acclaim: as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles; as a recording artist; and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received a Golden Globe Award, a Special Tony ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The couple formally adopted Dorothy Ruth, and Ruth adopted Hodgson’s daughter, Julia. From 1926 through 1932, Ruth averaged 49 home runs per season, had a batting average of .353, and won three World Series.
