Archive for May, 2021
Women and Adversity: Clara Brown, Philanthropist
May 13, 2021For my blogs in May, I'm taking some of the women I featured in my ebook, Women and Adversity, Honoring 23 Notable Mothers. Most people never heard of some of them, and I think Clara Brown is ...
Women and Adversity: Ida B. Wells, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist
March 25, 2021Ida B. Wells died of kidney disease 90 years ago today on March 25, 1931 in Chicago. As I wrote in my ebook Women and Adversity: Honoring 23 Black Women, I grew up hearing the name Ida B. Wells. ...