African American Women

Being an African American individual back in the early days was very difficult. Especially doing the slavery time in the early 1700s, even when slavery ended African Americans still had to fight to make themselves known. Early periods it was also hard for women in general to gain any type of respect. So it was extra hard being an African American woman growing up in that time period. There are a lot of African Americans that did a lot to help change the life of all, there's three African American women in particular one name Harriet Tubman, other name Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King.

Coretta Scott King was well known and remembered as the wife and the widow of the late DR. Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta was a promoter and spokesperson for non violence and peace and justice issues in her own right. Even though she took the back seat in some situations and let her husband handle most stuff as she just went to support, she always at some point made her voice be heard. She was concerned about how the world was being treated badly. So not only was she concerned about national issues she was also concerned about international issues. She always wanted favor for equality for all people and for the end of discrimination due to any reason. As it was stated early about the Rosa park issue she also helped out with the boycott. Coretta participated in some movement activities often; they were usually related to fundraising opportunities or to program related to women, children, and peace. Being the strong woman that she is a couple of days after her husband death she flew to Memphis to participate in a nonviolent march. Knowing her husband was a strong man she knew she had to finish what he started. Not giving up she still spoke at different events to help the world become a better place by trying to stop the violence and wanted everybody to be considered equal.

Almost everybody who attended middle school knows Harriet Tubman, and how she was a runaway slave. She was known as the Moses of her people, because she was brave enough to go back once she got away to get more slaves so they can have a change at freedom. She did the same way each time not changing anything with the help of the Underground Railroad. She even helped out with the civil war. During the war she would assist nursing the soldiers back to good health and assist slave refugees in the coastal south. She even took a big role in the military which had her to organize scouts and spies. She led rescue missions to free slaves into occupied South Carolina. Throughout her hard work she led over hundreds of slaves into freedom. On one trip Tubman came under Confederate fire on a mission. Its reported that, that was the only military command in American history where a woman, black or white, led the raid. So after all her hard work she still wanted to help out, so when she got her first paycheck from the military she build a place where freed black women can earn a living