{"id":1343,"date":"2011-02-07T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.customizedgirl.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-02-23T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:47:38","slug":"amazing-women-in-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.customizedgirl.com\/blog\/amazing-women-in-black-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Women in Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.customizedgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CoasterWomen.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1345  aligncenter\" title=\"CoasterWomen\" src=\"http:\/\/static.customizedgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CoasterWomen.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honor of Black History Month we have compiled a selection of black African\/ American Women who have changed our world for the better. These women often did so while overcoming difficult and trying situations to improve their lives, and the lives of women everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sojourner Truth<\/span>: Sojourner Truth escaped slavery and became a very powerful and vocal speaker for women&#8217;s rights as well as abolition. \u00a0She toured the country and helped change American attitudes to slavery and women. \u00a0One of her most well- known speeches was entitles, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t I a Woman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Harriet Tubman<\/span>: African American abolitionist, humanitarian, and spy for the Union in the American Civil War.\u00a0 Tubman was born into slavery, yet even after her escape she was able to return and make 13 missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rosa Parks<\/span>: Rosa Parks launched one of the most successful non-violent protests against discrimination in America by refusing to give up her seat on the bus.\u00a0 Parks helped achieve a lasting change in our country as well as becoming a modest but courageous icon for the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maya Angelou<\/span>: The poet laureate of the Clinton administration, who wrote a poem for his inauguration.\u00a0 This poem expressed the hopes and aspirations of a whole generation.\u00a0 She is also the author of\u00a0 &#8220;I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings&#8221; and a social commentator.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Madam C.J. Walker<\/span>: The first self-made millionaire who developed the &#8220;hot-iron&#8221; process for straightening hair and became a major business leader and philanthropist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coretta Scott King<\/span>: Wife and partner to the famous Martin Luther King Jr. she made her own contribution to the Freedom Movement by leading the movement for a national holiday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Loraine Hansberry<\/span>:\u00a0 This uncompromising foe of racism was the first black woman to write a Broadway play (<em>A Raisin in the Sun)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zora Neale Hurston<\/span>: Anthropologist, novelist and pioneer scholar of Negro folklore who was one of the most widely published authors of the &#8217;30s  and &#8217;40s.\u00a0 Among these is the novel <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Toni Morrison<\/span>: Novelist, essayist, and Princeton University professor best known for her novels <em>The Bluest Eye<\/em> and <em>Beloved. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shirley Chisholm<\/span>:\u00a0 Shirley was the first black Congresswoman in 1968. 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