Ladies all through historical past have been inventing, main, organizing, creating and making the world a greater place regardless of gender injustice. If girls knew about these inspiring tales which were saved from them, would they be bolder and have extra willingness to persevere?
Since incorporating as a nonprofit in 2015, Look What SHE Did! has produced 150+ three- to four-minute movies of ladies telling the tales of the trailblazing girls who encourage them.
All through Ladies’s Historical past Month, uncover untold tales of unimaginable girls—beginning this week with Ruby Bridges, Sonia Sanchez and Maggie Lena Walker.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges stood as much as horrible racial injustice at solely 6 years outdated. Actor-writer Renée Threatte recounts the emotional story of this courageous little lady integrating a New Orleans elementary faculty in the course of the time of Jim Crow. She tells us what it meant to her rising up and what we are able to all be taught from Ruby’s braveness.
The world wants us proper now to be courageous, to talk out towards injustice and towards bigotry.
Renée Threatte
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez laid down the cadence that advanced into poetry slams and Hamilton, influencing a number of generations. Studying her poetry like jazz, she inhabited the work and set a method that also resonates. She additionally pioneered instructing Black research at white universities and was the primary girl in America to show Black girls research on the college stage. That is Baddddd Sonia Sanchez—and it would be best to hear actor Joyce Man inform you her story.
She learn her work like jazz.
Joyce Man
Maggie Lena Walker
Maggie Lena Walker was a powerhouse, a superb visionary bringing dignity to her neighborhood regardless of the soul-crushing circumstances of the Jim Crow South.
An African American in Richmond, Va., firstly of the twentieth century, she was the primary girl, of any race, to discovered and grow to be the president of a financial institution in the USA. Beneath her management the St. Luke Pennybank and its Benevolent Society helped a whole lot of African-American households purchase properties, begin companies and climate the monetary disaster of the Melancholy.
Shelby Jiggetts-Tivony tells the emotional story of this foremother of hers who lifted the fortunes of multitudes of African Individuals within the Outdated South, together with Jiggetts-Tivony’s mother and father and grandparents. Maggie Lena Walker’s legacy lives on nonetheless.
An answer’s not an answer except it lasts.
Shelby Jiggetts-Tivony
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