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Woman of the Week
Dolores HuertaA FEW THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DOLORES HUERTA:
Dolores Huerta's lecture is titled "Without Fear: Neighbors Unite" at which she will discuss her life's work, the importance of social justice at the community level and how communities can collaborate to solve problems. 
Jacqueline JoynerJacqueline Joyner was born March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. She attended UCLA and competed in basketball and track and field from 1980-1985. She obtained her bachelors in History and a minor in mass communications. She is the heptathlon world record-holder and American record-holder in the long jump. Jacqueline participated in the Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988 and 1992.In 1984 Olympics she won the silver medal in the heptathlon and in 1988 and 1992 she won gold medals. In 1988 she won a gold medal in the long jump. She holds records in the long jump and heptathlon. Jacqueline is also involved with the community. She was a founding athlete of Athletes for Hope, a sports philanthropy movement that was created to educate, encourage and assist athletes in their efforts to contribute to community and charitable causes, to increase public awareness of those efforts, and to inspire others to do the same. 
Ida B. Wells BarnettEducator, Newspaper Woman, Founder of NAACP1862-1931 March 8, 2010 -- "I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said." Though her crusade for Congress to pass anti-lynching laws did not succeed during her lifetime, her efforts as a writer and activist dedicated to social change and justice bore fruit in many areas and established her as one of the most forceful and remarkable women of her time. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), marched in the parade for universal suffrage in Washington, D.C. (1913) and established the Negro Fellowship League for black men and the first kindergarten for black children in Chicago. When she was 22, Wells defied a conductor's order in Tennessee to move to a segregated railroad car and was forcibly removed. She won a lawsuit (later overturned) against the railroad and, from that point on, worked consistently to overcome injustices to people of color and to women. In 1889 she became co-owner of a Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech and Headlight. Her editorials protesting the lynching of three black friends led to a boycott of white businesses, the destruction of her newspaper office and threats against her life. Undeterred, she carried her anti-lynching crusade to Chicago and published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, which documented racial lynching in America. Ida B. Wells died in Chicago in 1931. She once said: "One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." 
Molly Murphy MacGregorMarch 1, 2010 -- Every year in March, the United States celebrates National Women's History Month in recognition of the contributions and accomplishments of women throughout the period of our nation's existence. This national designation and celebration is the direct result of the tireless efforts of Molly MacGregor co-founder of the National Women's History Project (NWHP). The National Women's History Project -- a nonprofit educational institution -- in 1980 and became its executive director, a post she still holds today. In that capacity, she works with leaders of national women's organizations to encourage them to celebrate their own histories as well as to build coalitions to develop programs and events that celebrate the vast array of women's lives.Under Molly's leadership, the NWHP has been recognized by the National Education Association with its prestigious Mary Hatwood Futrell Award for outstanding contributions to women's and girls' education, the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the Center for Women Policy Studies. Molly has also been honored by the American Education Research Association with its Women Educators' Curriculum Award, by the Giraffe Foundation for "sticking her neck out," by the Sonoma County NAACP as a Woman of the Year, by the California Commission on the Status of Women as one of California's Twelve Outstanding Women of 1987, by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey for contributions in shaping women's political and social landscapes, and by Sonoma State University as a Distinguished Alumna. For a fascinating look at women's history, visit the National Women's History Project Web site. |