February 05, 2014

JUST ME! :-)


Celebrating BLACK HISTORY Month...


Who is Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J. Walker)...


Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, regarded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

( N B W ) Who is Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander?

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898 – 1989) achieved a lot of firsts in her life.
She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the first African American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Delta Sigma Theta (1921)...

The ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the University of Pennsylvania’s first Black sorority, 1921.

February 03, 2014

( N B W ) Who is Mae Jemison?

Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992