Christina Maxouris, CNN “Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Featured Image (CNN)Black history is American history. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s easy to say. But while most grade school teachers agree […]
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Meet Phillis Wheatley | The Gospel Coalition
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), a poet and the first African-American woman published in pre-Revolutionary America, was also a notable apologist, abolitionist, and missionary.
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African American Women Writers – ThoughtCo
African American women writers have helped to bring the black woman’s experience to life for millions of readers. They’ve written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women.
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