by Alice Combs | Oct 7, 2020 | Alice Combs, Based on Sex, Grit & Goals Accomplished, Politicians, Triumph over Discrimination
The First Woman to Lie in State at Our Capitol Glass-ceiling breaker Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka RBG) was the first female Jewish Supreme Court justice. She was fortunate that her parents encouraged her to get a B.A., and were able to pay for it. Her father was an...
by Alice Combs | Jul 15, 2020 | Based on Skin Color, Triumph over Discrimination
Born a slave in North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs’s happy childhood ignorance of slavery ended when she was six years old. That was when her mother died, and Harriet became the companion and helpmate of her mother’s child-mistress. Over the following six years, Harriet...
by Alice Combs | Jul 1, 2020 | Based on Skin Color, Triumph over Discrimination
Born a slave, Sojourner Truth towered over six feet. She became famous as a charismatic public speaker and songstress before, during, and after the American Civil War. Sojourner (then called Isabel) was enslaved in New York state, which mandated emancipation beginning...
