Growing up as a Black girl in grade school, I hated history. I was never in the history books. Though I didn't know it at the time, I was intentionally left out of them.
Growing up as a Black girl in grade school, I hated history. I was never in the history books. Though I didn't know it at the time, I was intentionally left out of them.Black history tiptoed around slavery and implied Martin Luther King Jr. ended racism. Women's history included Amelia Earhart, aviation and a short, incomplete summary of Rosa Parks.
It wasn't until college that I learned about figures such as Claudette Colvin, a dark-skinned woman who refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks did; Pauli Murray, who struggled with their gender; Clara Luper, a leading civil rights activist born and raised in my home state, Oklahoma; and Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Representative.
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'"In 1968, she became the first Black congresswoman, representing the majority Black and largely Puerto Rican district in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she was born and raised.
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