Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (2/11/1916-12/22/2000) “Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses, she was one of the first black women to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she was admitted after threatening a...

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (2/11/1916-12/22/2000)

“Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses, she was one of the first black women to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she was admitted after threatening a discrimination suit. She fought in the courts and on the streets for abortion rights, represented Black Panthers, was a founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus and led a mass urination by women protesting a lack of women’s restrooms at Harvard (Douglas Martin, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2000).”

Happy Birthday, Flo! 

The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed self-defense Civil Rights organization formed by African-American men in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. They were factory workers, farmers, common laborers, fathers, husbands, and church-goers who organized to protect themselves and their communities from the terrorism and oppression of the Ku Klux Klan organizations, White Citizens Councils, and the police. They are often excluded from accounts of the Civil Rights Movement because they did not adhere to the strategy of civil disobedience and non-violence. Still, they worked closely with Civil Rights leaders, and Dr. King hired them to guard protests. 

Maria W. Stewart (1803 – February 6, 1880) was a relentless freedom fighter who challenged oppression through writing, teaching, and speaking. She is one of the first known Black female political writers, abolitionists, lecturers, and women’s rights...

Maria W. Stewart (1803 – February 6, 1880) was a relentless freedom fighter who challenged oppression through writing, teaching, and speaking. She is one of the first known Black female political writers, abolitionists, lecturers, and women’s rights advocates. She gave speeches denouncing slavery to audiences of black and white people, men and women. Also, her anti-slavery essays were published in The Liberator. 

classicethnichistoricalvibez: “ Yvette Stevens at 16 years old after befriending activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967 joined the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. Her duties were to hit them streets and sell the Black Panther...

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Yvette Stevens at 16 years old after befriending activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967 joined the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. Her duties were to hit them streets and sell the Black Panther newspaper and she also helped start the free breakfast for children program in Chicago. She states “”I saw what they were doing and it seemed to me that they were making sense.” In 1969 she left the Black Panther Party,she states “”I acquired a gun at one time and right then I realised it was not really for me…” A Yoruba priest at the Afro-Arts Theatre she attended gave her a new, very long name: Chaka Adunne Aduffe Yemoja Hodarhi Karifi. Only the Chaka stuck and with a marriage to Hassan Khan she had become CHAKA KHAN. 

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