by danarubin | Feb 22, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today’s Google Doodle marks the 145th birthday of Zitkála-Šá, an indigenous American writer, educator, musician and lifelong advocate on behalf of her people. She was born in 1876 on a Yankton Dakota reservation in rural South Dakota....
by danarubin | Feb 21, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1964, civil rights activist Ella Jo Baker spoke thundering words to rally support for a voter registration campaign in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was one of a number of “Freedom Day” events organized that year across the...
by danarubin | Feb 17, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1897, Frances E. W. Harper used her voice to express a hopeful view of the Black family in society, anchored by the African-American mother. Delivered just thirty years after Emancipation, her little-known speech on “The...
by danarubin | Feb 13, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1893, a young Ida Bell Wells stood before an audience and gave words to an unspoken horror. She was just 30 years old and not yet the accomplished speaker she would later become. But her searing speech, “Lynch Law in All Its...
by danarubin | Feb 12, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1959, civil rights lawyer and activist Pauli Murray shared her vision of equality and justice in an eloquent speech to a Black women’s group in upstate New York. It was a time of intense racial turbulence, just one week after a...
