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The daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck into Russia to report conditions there after World War I. From famous figures like Harriet Tubman to unsung heroines like "Lady Law" Violet Hill Whyte, author Lauren R. Silberman introduces Maryland's most tenacious and adventurous women.
The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement---its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large. --
Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. She couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old. “Go ahead, ask your question,” her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, “You’re my hero. Who’s yours?” Many people—especially girls—have asked us that same question over the years. It’s one of our favorite topics. HILLARY: Growing up, I knew hardly any women who worked outside the home. So I looked to my mother, my teachers, and the pages of Life magazine for inspiration. After learning that Amelia Earhart kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in male-dominated jobs, I started a scrapbook of my own. Long after I stopped clipping articles, I continued to seek out stories of women who seemed to be redefining what was possible. CHELSEA: This book is the continuation of a conversation the two of us have been having since I was little. For me, too, my mom was a hero; so were my grandmothers. My early teachers were also women. But I grew up in a world very different from theirs. My pediatrician was a woman, and so was the first mayor of Little Rock who I remember from my childhood. Most of my close friends’ moms worked outside the home as nurses, doctors, teachers, professors, and in business. And women were going into space and breaking records here on Earth. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, LGBTQ trailblazer Edie Windsor, and swimmer Diana Nyad kept pushing forward, no matter what. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling. Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic—they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women—leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. Because if history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs gutsy women.
The amazing story of a woman whose strength, determination and faith took her from the poor South to State Senate.Barbara A. Robinson was born in the South, out of wedlock to an alcoholic mother at a time when times weren't kind to people of color, especially women. Barbara experienced sexual, physical and emotional abuse from her stepfather; on-the-job gender, age, and racial discrimination; was raped at gun point; lived in the projects; was homeless at age sixteen; was on welfare; used drugs; experienced racial harassment in the workplace and experienced betrayal and infidelity in her marriage.After struggling for eighteen years to earn a bachelor's degree, she continued her education, earning several degrees from three universities; founded and operated a multi-million dollar enterprise, employing more than 100 employees and became a radio talk show personality. Barbara was the first woman and the first African American in the history of Maryland's court system to hold positions of Deputy Administrator of the District Court, the Supreme Bench and the Circuit Court, eventually becoming a member of Maryland's House of Delegates and the Maryland State Senate. She earned more than one-hundred awards including: the Women of Enterprise award, induction into Maryland's Women Hall of Fame, the Key to the City in three states, being featured in the book, "Women of Achievement in Maryland's History," voted one of Maryland's Top 100 Women, and honor at the White House delivered by President Clinton. She is the mother of five children including a set of triplets.And Still, I Cry is the first book in a six-book "Moments in Time "series, that discusses traumatic experiences in the life of a successful survivor who uses her past to achieve her dreams. Learn how she overcame obstacles from childhood and experience her journey through life, the people she met along the way, and the challenges she encountered and overcame, concluding with the death of her husband, ending a 47-year marriage.Barbara is one powerful woman, though it was doubtful she would make it past age twenty-one. Her autobiography is funny, sad, inspiring, and at times, shocking. It is a penetrating self-portrait of a woman fighting everyday battles of life and made it against the odds.
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.