tell about julia footes a famous african american women?
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Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900), the daughter of former slaves, was born in Schenectady, New York. Her parents were devout Christians, and she embraced their faith at an early age, joining the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church when she was fifteen years old, by which time she was living in Albany with her adopted family.\n\nMarriage in 1841 to a seafarer, George Foote, took eighteen-year-old Julia to Boston, where she joined this city's African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. Julia Foote's ever-increasing hunger for knowledge of the Holy was applauded; however, her insistence that God had called her to preach put a strain on her relationships with those who believed it absolutely inappropriate and downright wrong for a woman to be a preacher. Julia's parents did not support her call. Her husband did not support her call. Her pastor, Reverend Jeheiel C. Beman, not only did not think she should preach, but he also censured her for engaging in ministry in her home. \n\nConvinced that she had to answer to a higher power, Foote persevered, finding pulpits, homes, revival camps and other venues where her gifts of the Spirit were welcomed. Julia A. Foote preached up a storm: early on in New York, New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, and later, in Michigan, Ohio and Canada. Eventually, she settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where in 1879, she published her autobiography: A Brand Plucked From the Fire. \n\nWe do not know how or where this evangelist spent the 1880s and early 1890s, but we know that in 1894 Julia A. Foote became the A.M.E. Zion Church's first woman deacon. In 1900, shortly before her death, she became this denomination's second ordained female elder.
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Charlotte E. Ray\n\nIn February, 1872 she received her law degree and passed the bar examination for the District of Columbia on April 23, 1872. She was the third women and the first black women to receive this honor of becoming a lawyer. She is an inspiration to all woman who have goals.
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A'Lelia Walker\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%27Lelia_Walker
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( This Should Help you)\n\n\nRosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4th February, 1913. When Rosa was a child her mother, Leona McCauley, separated from her husband and moved to Montgomery. McCauley was a school teacher and encouraged her daughter to be active in the struggle for civil rights. \n\nIn 1932 Rosa married a barber, Raymond Parks. Both were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and Rosa served as the secretary of the Montgomery chapter. Durng this period she became close friends with Philip Randolph, Edgar Nixon and Ella Baker. These activists worked within a range of different organizations. This included the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Established in 1942, by a group of students in Chicago, members were mainly pacifists who had been deeply influenced by Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. The students became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. \n\nIn early 1947, CORE announced plans to send eight white and eight black men into the Deep South to test the Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. organized by George Houser and Bayard Rustin, the Journey of Reconciliation was to be a two week pilgrimage through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. \n\nThe Journey of Reconciliation began on 9th April, 1947. The team included George Houser, Bayard Rustin, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, Nathan Wright, Conrad Lynn, Wallace Nelson, Andrew Johnson, Eugene Stanley, Dennis Banks, William Worthy, Louis Adams, Joseph Felmet, Worth Randle and Homer Jack. \n\nMembers of the Journey of Reconciliation team were arrested several times. In North Carolina, two of the African Americans, Bayard Rustin and Andrew Johnson, were found guilty of violating the state's Jim Crow bus statute and were sentenced to thirty days on a chain gang. However, Judge Henry Whitfield made it clear he found that behaviour of the white men even more objectionable. He told Igal Roodenko and Joseph Felmet: "It's about time you Jews from New York learned that you can't come down her bringing your niggers with you to upset the customs of the South. Just to teach you a lesson, I gave your black boys thirty days, and I give you ninety." \n\nIn Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists considered using these tactics in Montgomery. However, under pressure from the NAACP, this never took place. Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's legal department, was strongly against these tactics and warned that a "disobedience movement on the part of Negroes and their white allies, if employed in the South, would result in wholesale slaughter with no good achieved." \n\nIn early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery and arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. The NAACP now agreed to take up the Colvin incident as a test case. It believed that this would result in a similar outcome to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation in education. However, the NAACP decided to drop the idea when they discovered that Colvin was pregnant. They knew that the authorities in Montgomery would use this against them in the propaganda war that would inevitably take place during this legal battle. \n\nOn 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, left Montgomery Fair, the department store where she worked, and got on the same bus as she did every night. As always she sat in the "black section" at the back of the bus. However, when the bus became full, the driver instructed Rosa to give up her seat to a white person. This had happened to Rosa several times before. In fact, the same bus driver had forced her off the bus in 1943 for c
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If you mean _American_ president, I really hope it's an African American woman, somebody non-Caucasian, non-male, non-whatever-previous-presidents-have-been, because it's time to drastically change, wake up the small-minded people, and have a brand new view on how to rule this country!
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hi alexandria lane pennington
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born October 29, 1938) is the current President of Liberia. Her election victory was formally announced by the Liberian elections commission on November 23, 2005 following the 2005 election. She is the world's first black woman president and Africa's first elected woman head of state. Her Vice President is Joseph Boakai. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady".\n\nsee : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf
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My hometown of Bristol(the Borough, not the Township) Pennsylvania is about to unveil this summer (ground has been broken and monument is already built) a statue of Harriet Tubman in honor of her role in "The Underground Railroad" to free slaves and lead them on their passage North. There are people out there in the U.S who recognize that this great country wouldn't be where it is today if not for the effort from the backs of the slaves back then. I agree it is time to give due credit. God Bless! Below is a link for the statue I mentioned above. It's a bit dated because the progress locally has been phenomonal with many locals (black & white) responding to the call of fundraising for it.
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I think it will be a black women
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Shes perhaps the nappiest looking black woman  Iver ever seen.  How about getting the chompers fixed too?  You could drive a VW thru that gap and then get lost in the mop she calls hair.  be proud black folk....shes representing your district!
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She wasn't the Queen of Egypt. Go have a look at www.ushistory.org/more/darragh.htm. You will find more than you need. Good Luck
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Grandma Moses is who you are referring to. She was a famous American folk artist.
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I actually think that the possibility exists for a black woman to be the next president of the US.  Condy Rice I feel would make an EXCELLENT president and not just of the NFL which is HER dream job.
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I vote Oprah! She is a wonderful role model for African Americans. Heck, she is a wonderful role model for anyone!
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She is an African American author and feminist.\n\nShe won a Puylitzer prize for The Color Purple.\n\nWalker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States.\n\nHer family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.\n\nAfter high school, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nShe graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York. \n\nShe spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.\n\nShe was married to activist Mel Leventhal from 1967 to 1976.\n\nShe has a daughter, Rebecca Walker (also a prominent activist and writer).\n\nHer first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence. \n\nShe took a brief sabbatical from writing when she and Leventhal lived in Mississippi and worked in the U.S. civil rights movement.\n\nWalker's first work of fiction, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was published in 1970.\n\nIn 1976, Walker's second novel, Meridian, was published. The novel dealt with activist workers in the South during the civil rights movement, and closely paralleled some of Walker's own experiences\n\nWalker became a political activist, in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College.   She spent several years in the 1960s working specifically as a civil rights activist, and continues to be an advocate for civil rights for all people.\n\nShe is active in environmental, feminist, and animal rights causes, and has campaigned against female genital mutilation.\n\nShe is also an advocate for the country of Cuba, and has spoken openly about ending the decades-long embargo against Cuba. Walker has visited Cuba on several occasions.\n\nWalker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985.\n\nThe Color Purple Walker not only won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, but also the American Book Award.\n\nHer book "The Same River Twice" was an autobiography of sorts, discussing specific events in Walker's life, as well as the perspective of experiencing reaction to "The Color Purple" twice, once as a book and then as the movie was made.\n\nWalker has chronicled her struggle with Lyme disease.\n\nShe has also received a number of other awards for her body of work, including:\n\nThe Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts \nThe Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters \nThe Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship \nThe Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York \n\nI hope this helps.
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Check out a book by: Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch.  called"A History of African American Theatre":\nit lists a few ;\nMorgan Smith, James Molyneaux, Cecelia Williams, George Bell, Hyers Sisters.\nInteresting info:\n1921 Shuffle Along The musical brought black actors back to Broadway after a 10-year absence during a time when the prominent black actors and producers of the day had retired and/or passed away. \nGL
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Patricia Bath\nThe first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.\n\nMiriam E. Benjamin\nMs. Benjamin was the second black woman inventor to receive a patent. She received a patent for an invention she called a "Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels".\n...