Women and Adversity
Women and Adversity: Ella Fitzgerald
September 23, 2021Ella Fitzgerald dreamed of being a dancer and in 1934 entered an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, but the main show featured dancers, and Fitzgerald felt she couldn’t compete a ...
Women and Adversity: Marie Foster , Voting Rights Activist
September 9, 2021It seems like not much has changed in the past 100 years for Blacks who wish to vote in Alabama. In the early 1960s, Marie Foster, who lived in Selma, tried eight times to get a voter’s card b ...
Women and Adversity: Tye Leung Schulze, First Chinese American to Vote
August 26, 2021Tye Leung was born August 24, 1887 in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the youngest of eight children of Chinese immigrants. Her parents had arranged a marriage between Tye’s sister and an older ...
Women and Adversity: Isabella Beecher Hooker
August 12, 2021Isabella Beecher was considered frivolous by her family, and one reason was that she spent a lot of time checking her appearance. She wasn’t interested in marriage, but John Hooker, a lawyer ...
Women and Adversity: Hazel M. Johnson Mother of Environmental Justice Founder of People for Community Recovery
July 22, 2021Hazel M. Johnson’s life as she knew it crashed in 1969 when her husband, John Johnson, died of lung cancer after being diagnosed a mere two weeks before. He seldom smoked, and she was bewi ...
Women and Adversity: Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, Advocate for Young Women in Malawi
July 8, 2021“When girls are educated, everything is possible,” says Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, tribal ruler over the 900,000 people in Dedza District in the African country of Malawi. Chief Kachin ...
Women and Adversity: Irena Sendler Mother of the Children of the Holocaust
June 24, 2021Irena Sendler's father told her when he was dying, “If you see someone drowning, you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim.” His daughter heeded his words and is credited with s ...
Women and Adversity: Hoelun, Mother of Genghis Khan
June 10, 2021Most people recognize the name Genghis Khan even if they don’t know when he lived, what he did or why he is memorable. Who, though, recognizes the name Hoelun, the mother of Genghis Khan? The ...
Women and Adversity: Marie Curie
May 27, 2021First Person and Only Woman to Receive a Nobel Prize Twice I’m choosing one of the most well-known women in the world to feature for this blog, but many facts about her go unnoticed. ...
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 ...