by danarubin | Mar 28, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1900, Yaa Asantewaa delivered a rousing speech that launched the War of the Golden Stool against British colonial rulers. Asantewaa was a queen in the Ashanti empire, modern-day Ghana, on the west coast of Africa. She was chosen by...
by danarubin | Mar 26, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ The first Black woman to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm delivered her first speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives on this day in 1969. It was a rhetorical thunderbolt delivered directly to President Nixon and her fellow...
by danarubin | Mar 25, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1965, civil rights leader Rosa Parks stood up at a rally in Montgomery, Alabama and spoke her heart out. She expressed the depths of her sorrow and anger over the country’s racial division and prejudice — but also her deepest...
by danarubin | Mar 23, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Helen Prejean’s passionate testimony against the death penalty on this day in 1998 came soon after one of the highest profile executions in the U.S. Just weeks before, Karla Faye Tucker had been put to death by the state of Texas for killing two...
by danarubin | Mar 22, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1802, Deborah Sampson Gannett stepped onto to a stage in Boston and gave a speech that would go down in history — that is, should have gone down in history — if history had acknowledged her. At the prestigious Federal-Street Theatre,...
by danarubin | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1880, a Native American woman of the Ute tribe took the witness stand in the nation’s capitol. Chipeta was the wife of a chief of the Uncompaghre Ute tribe, but she was born a Kiowa Apache. Chipeta means “white singing...
