| By Tamara Shiloh James Baldwin is known as “the most eloquent literary spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans.” A staunch supporter of Black nationalism, Malcolm X was a minister and leader in the civil rights movement. He strongly suggested that Blacks stand against white aggression “by any means necessary.” Social activist and Baptist By Tamara Shiloh James Baldwin is known as “the most eloquent literary spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans.” A staunch supporter of Black nationalism, Malcolm X was a minister and leader in the civil rights movement. He strongly suggested that Blacks stand against white aggression “by any means necessary.” Social activist and Baptist
ATHOL Chilly temperatures and a stiff breeze buffeted those people who attended Saturday’s Spelman College’s Founders Day wreath-laying ceremony at Silver Lake Cemetery. However, warm hearts provided all the comfort needed for a low-key but joyous.
ATHOL Two North Quabbin women will be honored Saturday for their role in the founding of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. A legacy wreath laying ceremony to celebrate the lives of New Salem natives Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles will take.
ATHOL On April 2, a ceremony will be held at the Silver Lake Pavilion to honor two area women who founded what is now known as Spelman College, the oldest all-women’s historically Black college or university in the country. The event will take.
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The women have much in common: They were born within a few years of one another; they all married men trained in the church; their lives spanned the 20th century; all three outlived their sons. And yet they were very different from each other.
Louise Langdon Little, who became the mother of Malcolm X, was Caribbean and biracial. Born in 1897, “the exact details of her conception have been lost to history,” Tubbs notes, but it is believed that her mother was raped by a white man. Sadly, this was not uncommon, Tubbs reminds us: “The effects of slavery . the constant control of black women s bodies through sexual violence, was universal, far after emancipation.”