Women and Adversity
Women and Adversity: Living through a natural disaster, Part II
April 22, 2021The tornado hit us two months ago, and we’re being patient about getting our house repaired. Several managers and adjusters have documented the destruction and decided what repairs are nee ...
Women and Adversity: Living through a natural disaster
April 8, 2021I hear the swishing of the clear plastic tarp that covers the inside space where a kitchen window should be. A plywood board covers the outside space. The titanic destruction is evident look ...
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. ...
Women and Adversity: Tondalao Hall, Unfairly Imprisoned in Oklahoma
March 11, 2021I featured Tondalao Hall in my2020 ebook, Women and Adversity, Honoring 23 Black Women, which included my interview with her. Megan Lambert with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma ...
Women and Adversity: Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist
February 25, 2021On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested because it was the law that Black passengers cede their seats to white ...
Women and Adversity: Lucille Clifton First Black Poet Laureate of Maryland
February 11, 2021Lucille Clifton aimed to have Americans realize, through her poetry and other writings, that Blacks made noteworthy contributions in the United States. She is known for the impact her poems ma ...
Women and Adversity: Louisine Havemeyer, Suffragist, Art Collector
January 28, 2021Socialite and art collector Louisine Havemeyer understood she’d probably be arrested and jailed if she participated in the suffrage demonstration in front of the White House on February 9, 1 ...
Women and Adversity Blog: 2021
January 14, 2021Along with all the people in countries around the world, U.S. residents are happy to leave 2020 behind and look forward to a prosperous, healthy 2021. What will my blog contain in 2021? Much of ...
Women and Adversity: Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross Born on Christmas Day 1821
December 24, 2020Clarissa “Clara” Barton was born on December 25, 1821, 199 years ago in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children. She was a shy girl, and on the recommendation of phrenologist ...
Women and Adversity: Wilhelmina Dowsett Founder, Woman’s Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaiʻi
December 10, 2020The daughter of a native Hawaiʻian mother of royal descent and a German immigrant father who was a coffee planter, Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett campaigned for the rights of th ...