black history month
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Clarissa Scott Delany
The Mask So detached and cool she is No motion e’er betrays The secret life within her soul and the Anguish of her days. She seems to look upon the world With cold ironic eyes, To spurn emotion’s fevered sway, To scoff at tears and sighs. But once a woman with a child Passed by Read more
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Septima Clark
The Queen Mother of the Civil Rights Movement Septima Poinsette Clark was born on May 3, 1898 in Charleston, SC. She helped several other teachers and the NAACP to prepare a 1945 court case that forced the Columbia public school system to make black and white teachers’ salaries equal. She lost her job with the Read more
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Dr. Dorothy Brown
Dorothy Lavinia Brown was born January 7, 1919 in Philadelphia. She was the first African American woman to be appointed to a residency as a general surgeon in the United States (1948 ), to become a general surgeon in the South (1954), and to become a fellow to the American College of Surgeons (1959). A Read more
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