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Black Women in American History

345 minutes

17 Items

Elizabeth (Mumbet) Freeman portrait, 1811 and Legal notes by Chief Justice William Cushing about the Quock Walker case, 1783

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Maria Stewart Advocates Education for African American Women, 1832

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Anna Julia Cooper with Anika Prather | Black Intellectuals Series #5

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26 Min

“Ar’nt I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth and the Abolitionist Movement | BRIdge from the Past

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10 Min

Taking Responsibility: Ida B. Wells and the Anti-Lynching Campaign

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1 Activities

45 Min

Zora Neale Hurston with Patricia Brown | Black Intellectuals Series #4

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22 Min

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial: Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes, & Racial Discrimination

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8 Min

Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, 1892

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Fannie Lou Hamer Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964

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Barbara Jordan, Watergate, and Justice

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45 Min

Black Lives Matter, “Herstory” 2014

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Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, 2019

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On My Own Ground: Madam C.J. Walker and Identity

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1 Activities

45 Min

Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Purpose

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1 Activities

45 Min

Rosa Parks’s Account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Radio Interview), April 1956

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40 Min

Harriet Tubman: Follow the North Star to Freedom

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1 Activities

45 Min

How Did Landscape Affect Harriet Tubman? The Outdoors, Slavery, & the Underground Railroad

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14 Min