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Race is a socially constructed grouping of people not based on biological factors, but on the understanding that there are societal differences in the treatment of different races. It is the recognition that there are social inequalities between the races that keep one group superior and another inferior. Race consciousness…

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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was an exceptional woman. Her slave experience was different from the traditional slave experience because she could read and was highly educated. The consensuses, during this time, was that slaves were inferior to white people and lacked the capability to be educated because race was seen as…

  Mitchell, Koritha, editor. Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted. Broadview Press, 2018.

Harper (1825-1911) was an abolitionist and a feminist. However, several of the white feminist movements she was a member of were only committed to their upliftment. White women believed their movement competed with the black movement. She opposed women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (founders of the…

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 4 Apr. 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/308831/.

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was a remarkable woman born into slavery in the late 1790s to James and Elizabeth, the slaves of a Revolutionary War colonel. Truth was alive at a “time when most Americans thought of blacks as male and women as white, Truth embodied a fact that […] among…

      Fists in the air, attendees smile at the Revolutionary People’s Party Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, September 1970. Photo: David Fenton via Getty Images. Mary , Mary. “Shackles (Praise You).” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Mar. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eZD3TKn_M.  

Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), born in the South in 1858, was a groundbreaking figure who devoted her life to her Christian faith. She was a highly educated figure who went on to get her PhD in her 60s from the Sorbonne in Paris. Cooper is credited with being the founder…