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MARIAN ANDERSON








MARIAN ANDERSON


"Philadelphia-born contralto Marian Anderson made musical history with her compelling interpretations of art songs, arias, and spirituals. She also made civil rights history with her April 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and her January 1955 debut at the Metropolitan Opera Company."

MARIAN ANDERSON AT THE PENN LIBRARY









~WHAT IF I AM A BLACK WOMAN~


What if I am a Black Woman?
Is it a disease?
Well, if it is, I sure hope it's catching
Because they need to pour it into a bottle, label it, and sprinkle it all over the people
Men and Women - whoever loved or cried, worked or died for any one of us.
So what if I am a Black Woman
Is it a crime?
Arrest me!
Because I'm strong, but gentle...
I'm smart, but I'm learning...
I'm loving, but I'm hateful...
And I like to work because I like to eat and feed and clothe and house me, mine, and yours and everybody's
Like I've been doing for the past 300 years.

What if I am a Black Woman?
Is it insane?
Commit me!
Because I want happiness, not tears;
Truths, not lies; Pleasures not pain; Sunshine, not rain; A man, not a child!

What if I am a Black Woman?
Is it a sin?  Pray for me! And pray for you too,
If you don't like women of color because we are... Midnight Black, Chestnut Brown, Honey Bronzed, Chocolate Covered, Cocoa Dipped, Big Lipped, Big Hipped, Big Breasted, and Beautiful... All at the same time!

So what if I am a Black Woman?
Does it bother you that much because I want a man who wants me...
Loves me and trusts me...
Respects me and gives me everything because I want to give him everything back, PLUS!

What if I am a Black Woman?
I've got rights, same as you!
I have worked for them Died for them Lied for them Played for them Laid for them...
On every plantation from Alabama to Boston and back!

What if I am a Black Woman?
I love me, and I want you to love me to,
But I am, As I've always been,
Near you, close to you, beside you...Strong, Giving, Loving
FOR OVER 300 YEARS YOUR BLACK WOMAN...LOVE ME!

AUTHOR UNKNOWN











BLACK WOMEN WRITERS















"I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night "


I AM A BLACK WOMAN











MATHEMATICIANS














"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? "
AIN'T I A WOMAN?













SCIENCES



















    "Phillis Wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. Kidnapped in West Africa and transported aboard the slave ship Phillis to Boston in 1761, she was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Young Phillis quickly learned to speak English and to read the Bible with amazing fluency."
    PHILLIS WHEATLEY AFRICANS IN AMERICA PART2

  • PHILLIS WHEATLEY AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN POET
  • FIRST BLACK U.S. WOMAN POET'S WORK FETCHES $68,500



    "Dianne Abbott was first elected to the House of Commons in 1987. She has had a role in decision-making processes surrounding some of the most important international events of the past decade: deliberating over NATO and United Nations action in the Balkans and Africa; participating as a member of the Treasury Committee of the International Monetary Fund, which was charged with resolving the debt crises facing countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin American; and criticizing the Maastricht Treaty. She has spoken out in favor of funding for public higher education and aggressive action in response to hate crimes."
  • DIANNE ABBOTT FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED TO BRITISH PARLIAMENT, TO SPEAK



    "Born in 1893, she was one of 12 children of a dirt-poor Texas cotton-farming family. At a time when African Americans were regularly prevented from voting by literacy tests and denied even a basic education,"
    "In November 1920, Coleman headed to France. Seven months later, she became the first African American woman to earn an international pilot's license from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale."
  • BESSIE COLEMAN FIRST BLACK WOMAN AVIATOR



    "In 1959, she was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, becoming the first black woman to be elected to the bench."
  • JUANITA KIDD STOUT FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED TO BENCH



    "In 1878, at the age of thirty-three, she was admitted as a student into the hospital's nursing program established by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. Sixteen months later, she was one of four who completed the rigorous course (of forty-two who started with her). After graduation she worked primarily as a private duty nurse for the next thirty years all over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. She ended her nursing career as director of an orphanage in Long Island, New York, the position she had held for a decade. She never married."
  • MARY ELIZA MAHONEY-(1845-1926) FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN REGISTERED NURSE IN USA



    "Maya Angelou is a multi-talented woman, with several "firsts" to her credit. She was the first black woman to have a screenplay produced; it became the film Georgia, Georgia, which she also directed. In 1970, she was the first black woman to have a non-fiction book on the bestseller list, the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She was even the first black woman to be a conductor on a San Francisco streetcar."
  • MAYA ANGELOU FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO HAVE A SCREENPLAY PRODUCED



    "Jane Bolin, the first black woman in the United States to be appointed to a judgeship, was only thirty-one years old when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia chose her, in 1939, for a ten-year term on the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York."
  • JANE BOLIN FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN USA TO BE APPOINTED TO A JUDGESHIP



    "In 1992, the year some political commentators dubbed "The Year of the Woman," a coalition of African-American and women voters spoke loud and clear when they helped elect Carol Moseley Braun as the nation's first African-American woman in the Senate."
  • CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN THE SENATE



  • MARIAN ANDERSON FIRST BLACK PERSON TO JOIN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA IN NEW YORK - 1935















SOJOURNER TRUTH



"When I went into the room, a tall, spare form arose to meet me. She was evidently a full-blooded African, and though now aged and worn with many hardships, still gave the impression of a physical development which in early youth must have been as fine a specimen of the torrid zone as Cumberworth's celebrated statuette of the Negro Woman at the Fountain. Indeed, she so strongly reminded me of that figure, that, when I recall the events of her life, as she narrated them to me, I imagine her as a living, breathing impersonation of that work of art."

SOJOURNER TRUTH THE LIBYAN SIBYL by Harriet Beecher Stowe, text of an article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1863



















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