Celebrating the 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment On August 26, 1920, the right to vote for women was adopted as the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution through a proclamation by Secretary of […]
The 19th Amendment On August 26, 1920, the right to vote for women was adopted as the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution through a proclamation by Secretary of […]
Photo by Thomas J. O’Halloran. Photo by Warren K. Leffler. The AALC Black History Month celebration continues with our profile of Barbara Jordan: an American politician, lawyer and educator who, […]
Shirley Chisholm in 1965. The next profile for Black History Month is about Shirley Chisholm: an American politician, educator, and author. Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to […]
Today marks the anniversary of when Violette Neatley Anderson became the first African-American female attorney admitted to practice in front of the US Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. Violette […]
Born in September of 1842, Cathay Williams was a slave who would later come to pose as a man under the pseudonym Williams Cathay in order to join the army, […]
©US Office of War Information, Jane Bolin (1942) 76 years ago on July 22nd, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed 31-year-old Jane Matilda Bolin to be Judge of the […]
Nikki Giovanni is a cherished American poet, writer, commentator activist and educator. She became prominent in the 60s and 70s. A mother, a teacher, a civil rights advocate, her poetry […]
Photo by Carl Van Vechten In the 1930s, Marian Anderson was known simply as “the voice of the century.” The Philadelphia-born classical contralto singer was an international phenomenon, attracting fans […]
Photo Courtesy of Randall Studio via Wikimedia Commons As Women’s History Month ends, we want to take a moment to appreciate the immense and varied contributions of Sojourner Truth. Sojourner […]