{"id":23079,"date":"2015-02-28T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23079"},"modified":"2015-02-27T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:22:19","slug":"celebrate-notable-african-american-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/celebrate-notable-african-american-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Notable African-American Women!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As African-American History Month<\/a>\u00a0draws to a close and Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>\u00a0begins, celebrate both by discovering these turn-of-the-twentieth-century African-American women activists on\u00a0your library’s shelves:<\/p>\n

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\"IdaBWells\"Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) first spoke out against the lynching of blacks in the South from the pages of her own Memphis, Tennessee newspaper. This act began her fierce campaign\u00a0to end the\u00a0injustice\u00a0through her lectures and writings. On Lynchings<\/em><\/a><\/strong> collects three of her influential publications on the subject.<\/p>\n

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\"Terrell\"<\/a>In her 1940 autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)\u00a0describes\u00a0her career as a speaker dedicated\u00a0to advancing the causes of\u00a0civil rights and women’s suffrage.<\/p>\n

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\"CallieHistorian Mary Frances Berry rescues Callie House (1861\u20131928) from obscurity in My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em> Founder of the\u00a0National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association, House began a grass-roots movement calling for\u00a0Congress to compensate former slaves for the labor they performed during centuries of captivity.<\/p>\n

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Explore the\u00a0lives of other remarkable African-American women\u00a0with\u00a0Biography in Context<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> This\u00a0online database\u00a0<\/a>conveniently gathers information from reference works, academic publications, newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts, websites, and other sources\u00a0to create”media-rich” profiles of historical figures,\u00a0writers, artists, celebrities,\u00a0and other prominent individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As African-American History Month\u00a0draws to a close and Women\u2019s History Month\u00a0begins, celebrate both by discovering these turn-of-the-twentieth-century African-American women activists on\u00a0your library’s shelves:   Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) first spoke out against the lynching of blacks in the South from the pages of her own Memphis, Tennessee newspaper. This[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,9,1,6],"tags":[1701,2112,441,415],"class_list":["post-23079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-databases","category-reference","category-websites","tag-african-american-women","tag-american-history","tag-biographies","tag-civil-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-60f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23079"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions\/23234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}