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Woman Reading (La Liseuse) is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist Henri Matisse. [1] It is displayed at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, having been on loan from the Centre Pompidou since 2002. [2] It shows a woman, dressed in black, seated and reading, with her back to the viewer, in the calmness of a ...
Women's clubs spread very rapidly after 1890, taking up some of the slack left by the decline of the WCTU and the temperance movement. Local clubs at first were mostly reading groups focused on literature, but increasingly became civic improvement organizations of middle-class women meeting in each other's homes weekly.
The library was founded by Ola Ronke Akinmowo in 2015. Initially, Akinmowo used social media to ask people to send her any books written by Black women. [1] After some weeks, Akinmowo received about 100 books for her project. The library's holdings grew to about 450 books in 2016, [2] and to about 1000 books in 2018. [3]
African Americans. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1][2] Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally ...
Women reading in art. Elinga, Reading Woman, c. 1660. Women reading in art refers to any artistic work representing one or more women in the act of reading. This subject matter is quite common, with images appearing as early as the 14th century. [1] Viewers are often exposed to a private, personal moment through these works.
Albertus Bethune. . . (m. 1898; sep. 1907) . Children. 1. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955 [1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican ...
Relatives. John Haywood (grandfather) Anna Julia Cooper (née Haywood; August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, Black feminist leader, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper received a ...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African-American -led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. [ 3 ] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. [ 4 ] The movement expanded from the incredible accomplishments of artists of the Harlem Renaissance.