Lectures tagged "Women of Color"

Tribute to Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Lee
January 16, 2006
01:32:11
On Martin Luther King Day, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards discuss the remarkable political careers of two African American women, Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.
Callie House: My Face is Black is True
Mary Frances Berry
September 14, 2005
00:50:06
Mary Francis Berry reclaims Callie House, a magnificent heroine who, though so long forgotten that the site of her grave is unknown, emerges as a pioneering activist: a female forerunner of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.