by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 7, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Mari Copeny 2007– Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny became known as Little Miss Flint during the 2016 water crisis in Michigan. She wrote a letter to then-President Barack Obama bringing international attention to lead-tainted drinking water in her hometown. She was only eight...
by caroljacobsen.org | Feb 7, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Allyson Felix 1985– Allyson Felix is both the most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history and the most decorated American track and field athlete in the World Athletics Championships history, earning 11 total medals from five consecutive Olympic Games...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 30, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Annie Easley 1933 -2011 Two weeks after reading an article on twin sisters working as human computers, Annie Easley began a career in 1955 as a ‘human computer’, doing computations for researchers. This involved analyzing problems and doing calculations by hand. In...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 23, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Ellen Jackson 1935–2005 Ellen Swepson Jackson was an American educator and activist best known for founding Operation Exodus in 1965. Jackson got involved because her five children attended an overcrowded school of predominantly Black students who were not...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 23, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Jean Blackwell Hutson 1914–1998 Jean Blackwell Hutson was an African American librarian, archivist, curator, and finally chief of the New York Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1948 to 1980. She also taught classes in Black Studies at the City...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 19, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Lucy Craft Laney 1853–1933 Born into slavery in 1854, Lucy Craft Laney was educated by her parents as slaves were not allowed to attend school. Before she became a teenager she could not only read and write English, but also Latin. However, when she attended Atlanta...
