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Episodes tagged "African American Women": 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. Hattie McDaniel wins for more than just Gone with the Wind
    date February 29, 1940map Los Angeles, Californiatags African American Women, Academy Awards, Film

    At the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony held in 2010, Mo’Nique received her Academy Award for outstanding performance of an Actress in a Supporting Role. During her acceptance speech, Mo’Nique gave recognition to a woman who had won the same award seventy years earlier. She expressed her deepest admiration for this woman in these words: “I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that...

  2. Penders Advertisment
    date December 20, 1933map Wake, North Carolinatags African American Women, employment, African-Americans

    The Pender’s grocery advertisement from the Raleigh Observer depicted a wealthy and very happy white family enjoying a lovely Christmas dinner. The family is being served dinner by a maid, that also appeared to be in a good mood in the advertisement. This advertisement was an illustration of the menial work black women had to do in the 1930s. Domestic jobs were usually the most common types of work...

  3. The Significance of Rhetoric in Antebellum America
    date 1839map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Rhetoric, Writing, African American Women, African American

    The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia May 1st through 3rd , 1839. This gathering was formed in such that African American women could come together and raise their voice for a cause that constantly rejected them. While slavery was still breaking the backs of black men and women in the South, Free Blacks in the North felt a duty and responsibility to promote and bring about...

  4. From Eatonville to Broadway
    date 1910 to 1935map Orange, Floridatags Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville, African American Authors, African American Folklore, Female Authors, African American Women

    Born in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston became one of the greatest-known black female authors of all time. Zora once said: "I was born in a Negro town.  I do not mean by that the black backside of an average town.  Eatonville, Florida is, and was at the time of my birth, a pure Negro town-charter, mayor, council, town marshal and all.  It was not the first Negro community...

  5. Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: A Free Woman
    date 1855 to May, 1870map NASSAU, Floridatags african americans, Anna Kingsley, African American Women

    Unrestrained Florida landscapes surround the large, white plantation home on Fort George Island, now called “The Princess House.” Echoes of past voices in celebration, in labour, and in daily life resound through the hollow rooms, the large covered porch, and the plantation grounds. Once home to an African princess, wed to a Spanish plantation owner, the home stands as a piece of living African...

  6. Zora Hurston: Making Folklore
    date 1930 to 1945map Orange, Floridatags African Folklore, African American Women

    Zora Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida. The first incorporated all black town; Eatonville provided Hurston a unique childhood, despite lacking money and educational opportunities. Hurston’s passion in learning black culture and folk life established her as a very unique and intelligent individual, whom was praised in the black community.  Although her views on racism were quite different from...