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Jul 22
July
Activist
Civil Rights
Oretha Castle Haley
Oretha and her sister, Doris Jean Castle, were vital leaders of the civil rights movement in New Orleans.
Tennessee
Jul 27
July
Activist
Civil Rights
Audley "Queen Mother" Moore
Louisiana
Jul 31
July
Activist
Civil Rights
Mary Fair Burks
Alabama
Aug 6
August
Activist
Actress
Singer
Abbey Lincoln
Illinois
Aug 8
August
Activist
Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
Suffragist
Kentucky
Aug 10
August
Activist
Author
Educator
Anna Julia Cooper
Modernly, Cooper has been referred to as the Mother of Black Feminism after her book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South sparked a new era of Black feminist thought, challenging the prevailing narratives of race, gender, and class.
North Carolina
Aug 17
August
Author
Educator
Activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Grimke (1837-1914) hailed from a triumvirate of intellectual and abolitionist families: born into the prestigious Forten family, she later married into the equally renowned Grimke family, and shared familial ties with the influential Purvis family. She was an activist, educator, and a diarist whose published works gave rare insight into the life and perspective of a free Black woman in the North, pre-civil war.
Pennsylvania
Aug 31
August
Journalism
Suffrage
Activist
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Sep 9
September
Activist
Educator
Harlem Renaissance
Louise Thompson Patterson
Illinois
Sep 21
September
Activist
Civil Rights
Frances Mary Albrier
Activist
New York
Oct 6
October
Activist
Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer
"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".
Mississippi
Oct 13
October
Activist
Educator
Gertrude Elise McCougald Ayer
"We find the negro woman figuratively struck in the face by contempt from the world about her. Within her soul, she knows little of peace and happiness. But through it all, she is courageously standing erect, developing within herself the moral strength to rise above and conquer false attitudes...The wind of the race's destiny stirs more briskly because of her striving."
New York
Oct 15
October
Activist
Civil Rights
Black Panther Party
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Oct 29
October
Educator
Activist
Josephine Beall Wilson Bruce
Clubwoman
Pennsylvania
Nov 11
November
Civil Rights
Author
Composer
Activist
AME
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Indiana
Nov 24
November
Activist
Anna Johnson Julian
Sociologist, Activitst
Maryland
Nov 26
November
Government
Civil Rights
Educator
Activist
Sybil Haydel Morial
Morial (1932-2024) was a staunch voting and civil rights activist, the wife of the first Black Mayor of New Orleans, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, and mother of Marc Morial, the second Black Mayor of New Orleans.
Louisiana
Dec 24
December
Entrepreneur
Banking
Activist
Stephanie St. Clair, The Queen of Harlem
“I’m not afraid of Dutch Schultz or any other man living. He’ll never touch me.” After Schultz was shot in the stomach while on the toilet at his favorite restaurant, St. Clair sent a telegram to his hospital bed that read “So You Sow — So Shall Ye Reap.” signed “Madam Queen of Policy.”
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