by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 31, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin 1939 – When Claudette was 15 years old, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in a racially segregated bus in Alabama. Colvin stood her ground because she felt it was her constitutional right...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 4, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Barbara Johns Barbara Johns, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20″ Barbara Johns, 2022 1935–1991 On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns, a 16 year-old high school girl in Prince Edward County, Virginia, led her classmates in a strike to protest the substandard conditions at...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 4, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Josephine Baker, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30″ Josephine Baker started her career performing vaudeville in New York and later was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Siren of the Tropics. She went on to perform her vaudeville numbers in...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 3, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
bell hooks, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20′ 1958-2021 Both an intellectual and a person who helped people pursue ‘right relations’ to others, bell hooks wrote more than 30 books on race, feminism and class. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell took her...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 2, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Alice Ball, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20″ Alice Augusta Ball overcome the racial and gender barriers of her time to become the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii. At 23 she became the first...