The Life of Patricia Roberts Harris

She was a black woman in the 1900’s. “Why is she so dark?” asked her father Ben Jordan when she was first born. Jordan was the first black woman to have a seat in the congress and in the Texas state senate, that means that she had to work with men. Men that probably didn’t think much of her because she was black and a woman, also because women weren’t respected very much then. She made it clear to the men who worked on the Texas Legislature and the United States Congress that she would never betray her people but that everything else was on the table.

In 1932 Hope became the first vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples Atlanta chapter. During her tenure she oversaw the creation of "citizenship schools," basic six-week course that help African Americans get into politics and government. Shortly after her husband John Hope died but Lugenia went on to accomplish much more before her death on August 14, 1947. Cited evidence:

Anne Dallas Dudley, left quite a legacy. Before her great accomplishments and activism that she would become well known for today, she came from a family of many achievements. Dudley learned early on about philanthropy and civic service from many generations of men in her family. Just to name a few: her grandfather, Alexander J. Dallas, was a commodore in the U.S Navy, her great uncle, George M. Dallas, served as vice president of the United States under James K. Polk where he led statehood to Texas, and her father, Trevanion B. Dallas, was an entrepreneur in the textile business in the late 1800’s

The assignation of Martin Luther King had a large impact on her decision to stay at MIT. Jackson’s main motivation was to improve the quality of education for minorities and women. To do this, she had to stay and face that adversity herself. In 1973 Jackson earned her Ph.D. from MIT, the first African American women

Harris- Perry is an author, professor, television host and commentator with a focus on Political Science concentration on African Americans. She is

In the fictional story Dealing with Dragons Patricia Wrede tells the tale of an improper princess who ignores the expected norms of society of her day. Cimorene is justified in ignoring expected social norms of the day because it did benefit her life but some people may disagree.

on, January 4, 1926, of breast cancer. Although she was never recognized for her contributions

Lee, Barbara was born July 19, 1946 in Texas, Lee moved to California in 1960 due to her parents being in the military. Lee attended a catholic school Sisters of Loretto taught her which was dedicated to justice and peace. In high school lee worked with NAACP to integrate her high school to have a mix of races in her cheer team. Lee attend mills college while she was a single mother and receiving public assistance. She became president of Mills College’s Black Student Union while she was president Shirley Chisholm who happened to be the first African American woman elected to Congress was picked to speak at her school. After meeting Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Lee signed up to vote for her first time and worked on Congresswoman Chisholm’s presidential campaign.

Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman to be elected to Congress was born in Brooklyn on November 30, 1924. She is one of the most profound and admired women that challenged society not only as a woman, but a woman of color. She made many contributions to the women's movement and society.

She showed them that they could be equal. The only difference was the color of the skin. She taught them that that wasn’t even a big difference. She fought segregation her entire life.

In 1895 Wells married Ferdinand L. Barnett, a Chicago lawyer, public official, and publisher of the Conservator. She settled in Chicago and adopted as her married name Ida Wells-Barnett. After 1895 she limited her activities to Chicago, but she was quite active in Chicago's rapidly growing African-American community. In Chicago she wrote for the Conservator, published an expose of lynching, The Red Record, and organized Chicago women regarding several causes, from anti-lynching to suffrage. From 1898 to 1902, Wells served as secretary of the National Afro-American Council, and in 1910 she founded and became the first president of the Negro Fellowship League.

Ella was apart of the SCLC , SNCC,and NAACP, through those organizations Ella was able to help many lives. To begin, according to Susan Gushee O’Malley “She was named acting director of the SCLC and set about organizing the crusade to open simultaneously in twenty-one cities.”Ella just started to work for the SCLC ( southern christian leadership conference) in 1960. The purpose of SCLC was to keep black-based movement churches in touch with each other so they can work together for the rights of colored people. Second, according to msbush.wikispaces.com “She helped form what is known as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which helped show student's involvement in the civil rights movement, through nonviolent protest. This organization helped form Freedom Summer; an event which focused America's attention on the racism that occurred in Mississippi,

     Her parents nurtured the background of this crusader to make her a great spokesperson. She also held positions throughout her life that allowed her to learn a lot about lynching. She was

Rita Bardor stood outside the porch in front of her house. Life in Germany was not always peaceful before the war, but at least there was not any conundrum as to how life was going to be. Her parents were inside the house, bickering whether to flee or not to the United States. In between the verbal fight going on with her parents, Rita stared up in the sky, with a look of aspiration. She had planned to become a nurse, but with the onslaught of the Second World War, it seemed to her that the future was only about surviving, at any costs.s

My name is Pai Harris; I was born in West Africa, Liberia. And I have a story to tell. This story is some of my memories from my childhood. All the memories from my early childhood are still vivid. One of my earliest memories, and the most horrifying one, was the civil war that took place in West Africa when I was a child. A war that destroyed the country left us homeless and with a painful scar in the heart of the people that experienced it. Even though I was about seven and the half, I remember seeing people being killed in front of me and male children who were about eight and above being ripped from the arms of their parents so that they could join the war. Parents were crying here and there wondering where their children were and if