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Women and Jim Crow
The story of Jim Crow is filled with the courageous tales of proud and determined women who refused to be counted out or pushed aside. Many of them were feminists who linked the struggle for civil rights with the battle for equal gender rights. All of them were valiant warriors--women who achieved much personal fulfillment as "socially responsible individuals." To a person they refused to allow the color of their skin to limit their perceptions of what they should be or could become. And while their history is part of the history affecting all African Americans in America, they walked through life as women as well as African Americans. Sexism affected them perhaps just as much as racism affected them--but they never considered themselves to be disadvantaged nor powerless as women or as African Americans. Indeed, the following brief biographies are a testimonial to their agency and to their empowerment as women in a world dominated by racial and gender discrimination. Reading their stories individually and collectively is to understand that these women were endowed in common with a tremendous sense of self-worth and an aura of dignity that characterized their struggles for justice. Read a lesson plan focusing on the social climate in which these women lived, and how it affected their outlooks on life. If you have a submission for this map, click here.
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