by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 31, 2022 | Doing the Right Thing
Sherry Johnson, Child Bride, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30″ 1960 – Eleven-year-old Sherry Johnson was forced to marry her rapist following giving birth to his child at age ten. The marriage allowed her molester, a church deacon, to escape legal...
by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 31, 2022 | Doing the Right Thing
1960- Lucy McBath is a gun control activist and politician who has worked tirelessly to pass gun control legislation in the United States. She became a gun control advocate after her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot and killed by a white man who objected to the...
by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 31, 2022 | Doing the Right Thing
Darnella Frazier was 17 when she recorded George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in 2020. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Special Citations in 2021. The video played a major role in igniting a global protest movement against police violence, and was used as...
by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 31, 2022 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
1924-2005 Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). As a member in Congress, Chisholm...
by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 31, 2022 | Doing the Right Thing
1944- Angela Davis is a writer, feminist, political activist, and educator. She rose to prominence in 1969 when her campaign to defend three black soldiers in Soledad Prison and her affiliation with the Communist Party led to her being fired from the University of...
