After more than a decade of collaborating with African American choreographers on solo pieces created for her as a dancer, Gesel Mason turned that body of work into a digital archive, “No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers”
American civil rights activist
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Deloris L. Ruddock was one of 855 African American women who served in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) during the war. Officially known as the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the women called themselves the “Six Triple Eight” with the motto “No Mail, Low Morale.”
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
Lydia Jackson (fl. 1760–92) was a wrongfully indentured Black woman who managed to secure her freedom and leave colonial Canada for Sierra Leone in 1792.
One of the hundreds of people of African descent enslaved in Upper Canada in the 1700s and 1800s
Widowed after 12 years of marriage, Georgina Mingo Whetsel (1846–1919) took over the operation of her late husband’s ice business in Saint John and built it into a major commercial enterprise.
One of the hundreds of people of African descent who were enslaved in Upper Canada, Chloe Cooley came to public attention in 1793 after her enslaver forcibly transported her across the Niagara River to sell her on the American side.
Woman enslaved in Canada in the 1700s and 1800s