by danarubin | Jul 4, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was an orphan by the age of three and raised by relatives in Scotland. She fell in love with the radical promise of the American Revolution, and by the age of 23 was on a ship bound for New York harbor. Seven years later, in 1825, she became an...
by danarubin | Jun 30, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was born in rural South Carolina, just a decade after the Emancipation Proclamation, to parents who had been enslaved. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children. None of her siblings could read or write — they all worked in the cotton fields....
by danarubin | Jun 15, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, a city divided by race. When she was eight, an angry protester threw a brick through the window of her family home. Her beloved father, disillusioned by the failings of America to achieve racial progress,...
by danarubin | Jun 14, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today is Flag Day — the day we commemorate the adoption of the Stars and the Stripes by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. It’s also a day to remember the woman’s rights speaker Anna Howard Shaw, who once found herself...
by danarubin | Jun 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was a talented, passionate speaker who delivered her first anti-slavery lecture at age 16. She traveled with her brother and other abolitionists around the state of New York giving talks and gathering support for anti-slavery cause. She went on...
