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When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt By Isabel Wilkerson SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By (1963), millions of African-Americans had already testified with their bodies to the repression they had endured in the Jim Crow South by defecting to the North and […]
Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley ( February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil rights activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after […]
When You Are Lost, Thank Gladys West for Your GPS byCathy Dyson, The (Fredericksburg, Va.) Free Lance-Star /AP via militarytimes.com Gladys West was putting together a short bio about herself for a sorority function that recognized senior members of the group. She noted her 42-year career at the Navy base at Dahlgren and devoted one short-and-sweet line to the fact she […]
Meet Bessie Blount Griffin, a physical therapist, inventor, and forensic scientist who invented an electronic feeding device in 1951 to help amputees feed themselves. She also invented the cardboard disposable emesis basis. A physical therapist working with wounded soldiers during World War II, Griffin realized that soldiers struggled with feeding themselves. She programmed a tube to […]