Wilhelmina Crosson created #Boston’s 1st remedial reading program in 1935 for Italian immigrants. As head of @LWCBoston and the Aristo Club, she championed Black history in schools long before it was standard. She went on to become president of Palmer Memorial Institute in NC
#WHM #LWCSArchive
Meet Sue Bailey Thurman: the strategist who brought Gandhi’s non-violence philosophy to MLK. 🕊️ A true Renaissance woman, she used a "historical cookbook" as a marketing ploy to preserve Black women's history and founded the Museum of African American History in #Boston.
#WomenInHistory #LWCSArchive
Before Ebony Magazine or Jet, there was the Negro Digest/Black World. In 1942, every bank said a Black-audience magazine would fail. To prove them wrong, John H. Johnson used his mother’s furniture as collateral for a $500 loan. He bet on his community—and won.
#LWCSArchive #BlackHistoryMonth
Post Civil War, Booker T. Washington & Julius Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck built 5,000+ schools for Black children in the rural South. Backed by $4.7M from Black communities, the model drove big educational gains. Alumni included Maya Angelou, John Lewis & Pauli Murray. #LWCSArchive #BlackHistoryMonth
Meta Warrick Fuller’s “Negroes in Tableaux” was a series of 15 dioramas commissioned for the 1907 Jamestown Tricentennial Fair in Norfolk, VA. This remarkable installation by a Black artist depicted the Black experience and its evolution. #BlackHistory #LWCSArchive
Honored to present about the legacy of the US Black women’s club movement, “A Broad Band of Sisterhood: the Women’s Era and The League of Women for Community Service,” at the Chicago Women’s History conference this weekend. #womenshistorymonth #HerStory #LWCSArchive #Boston #Chicago #blackhistory
From #Boston Latin School to the battlefields of Word War I, Addie Waites Hunton's life was a testament to courage and activism. Born in 1866, Hutton became an educator, suffragist, YMCA staff-assigned World War I worker and NAACP leader. #WomensHistoryMonth #CivilRights #Suffrage #LWCSArchive
After escaping bondage, Lewis & Harriet Hayden came to #Boston & became the center of the abolition movement there, forcefully protecting freedom seekers in their Beacon Hill home. Upon death, their entire estate went to an endowed education scholarship for Black ppl. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began dancing in saloons at 6. A tap dancer known for his elegance, he became the top paid Black entertainer in the US in the 1st half of the 20th century, often performing w/ Shirley Temple. Despite racist roles, he transformed his art form #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
Eva B. Dykes attended M Street H.S. School and went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from @HowardU in 1914. Required to get another B.A. from @Harvard to achieve a masters, she earned both by 1917. In 1921, she became the 1st Black woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
In 1911, Addison Scurlock opened Scurlock Photographic Studio in Wash. DC. He & his sons would build one of the top Black photo studios in the U.S. Known for portraiture, he is famous for depicting Black life in DC, W.E.B. DuBois & Marian Anderson on Lincoln Memorial. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
Son of a poet & an engineer, Allan Crite was a long-time resident of #Boston's South End neighborhood. An @SMFAatTufts grad, his art often showed daily life in the Black community. Highly awarded, @LWCSBoston & @museummodernart.bsky.social hosted exhibits on his work #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
