![]() ![]() The story of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a pioneering Canadian black woman, is one that has been sadly overlooked. Students lives will be fortified and enriched by its telling.” ![]() Black women’s history needs to be engaged beyond Black History Month, and become a part of the curriculums of schools everywhere. “While the work by noted historians such as Darlene Clark Hine and Deborah Gray White, is helping to move it into the mainstream, so much more needs to be done to bring this history of struggle, courage, disappointment, and overcoming-continually overcoming-to a broader audience. McCluskey, Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. ![]() “Black women’s history has been in the shadows for too long,” said Audrey T. ![]() In their description of the theme, they wrote, “in slavery and freedom, struggles have been at the heart of the human experience, and their triumphs over racism and sexism are a testimonial to our common human spirit.”īlack history, especially Black women’s history, has historically been overlooked. This year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History chose Black Women in American Culture and History as their theme. ![]()
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