by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 27, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
1954 – At age six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South (New Orleans). A lifelong activist for racial equality, in 1999, Ruby...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 27, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Coretta Scott King 1927 – 2006 Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. She met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They were both active in the...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 27, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Anna Murray Douglass (1813 – 1882) Anna Murray Douglass was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death. Anna Murray was a...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 27, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Elizabeth Ann Eckford 1941- Elizabeth Ann Eckford is one the first black students to attend classes at formerly all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Will Counts of the Arkansas Democrat took the photo of her that inspired this...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 13, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Anna Mangin (1844 – 1931) Anna Mangin was awarded a patent in 1892 for the Pastry Fork. The designed allowed the user to beat eggs, mash potatoes, prepare salad dressing, and work together butter and flour without having to touch the food with his or her hands....
