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Born in 1949, in Birmingham, AL, to Wilson Driver and Lena Jones, Wilsonia, Sonia to her family, suffered through a childhood of loss and upheaval. [...]

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We all think we know Harriet Tubman. She was an American Moses, staring out at us from the daguerreotype, stalwart and determined. Many were first [...]

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In the introduction to her 1940 autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, Mary Church Terrell wrote that “A white woman has only one [...]

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In 1878, the family of James and Elizabeth Wells was swept up in a wave of Yellow Fever, ending the traditional school girl life that [...]

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Writing a blog entry about an exhibition that is honoring so many amazing African-American women has me stilted. Where do we start? Sure, many of [...]

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