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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South.

 

Ida Bell Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16th, 1862. She was born into slavery during the Civil War. Once the war ended Wells-Barnett’s parents became politically active in Reconstruction Era politics. Her parents instilled into her the importance of education. Wells-Barnett enrolled at Rust College but was expelled when she started a dispute with the university president. In 1878, Wells-Barnett went to visit her grandmother. While she was there Wells-Barnett was informed that a yellow fever epidemic had hit her hometown. The disease took both of Wells-Barnett’s parents and her infant brother. Left to raise her brothers and sister, she took a job as a teacher so that she could keep the family together. Eventually, Wells-Barnett moved her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee. There she continued to work as an educator.

 

In 1884, Wells-Barnett filed a lawsuit against a train car company in Memphis for unfair treatment. She had been thrown off a first-class train, despite having a ticket. Although she won the case on the local level, the ruling was eventually overturned in federal court. After the lynching of one of her friends, Wells-Barnett turned her attention to white mob violence. She became skeptical about the reasons black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases. She published her findings in a pamphlet and wrote several columns in local newspapers. Her expose about an 1892 lynching enraged locals, who burned her press and drove her from Memphis. After a few months, the threats became so bad she was forced to move to Chicago, Illinois.

 

In 1893, Wells-Barnett, joined other African American leaders in calling for the boycott of the World’s Columbian Exposition. The boycotters accused the exposition committee of locking out African Americans and negatively portraying the black community. In 1895, Wells-Barnett married famed African American lawyer Ferdinand Barnett. Together, the couple had four children. Throughout her career Wells-Barnett, balanced motherhood with her activism.

 

Wells-Barnett traveled internationally, shedding light on lynching to foreign audiences. Abroad, she openly confronted white women in the suffrage movement who ignored lynching. Because of her stance, she was often ridiculed and ostracized by women’s suffrage organizations in the United States. Nevertheless, Wells-Barnett remained active the women’s rights movement. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women’s Club which was created to address issues dealing with civil rights and women’s suffrage. Although she was in Niagara Falls for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her name is not mentioned as an official founder. Late in her career Wells-Barnett focused on urban reform in the growing city of Chicago. She died on March 25th, 1931.

Nydia Quintero

Doña Nydia was born in Neiva on October 22, 1931. She spent her childhood in the capital of Huelva with her parents, who instilled in her a great sense of family and an interest in contributing to the social cause. Doña Nydia does not hesitate to recognize that it was in her own home where she was planted her great conviction: the importance of training in values. This has been her banner, her constant struggle. For her, values are the roots from which all other actions germinate, whose character is inevitably linked to the strength with which they are rooted. 

She often cites this fact of her upbringing as the reason that led her to create the Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, as she recalls how she used to accompany her mother to bring aid when there was flooding from a rising river, to deliver markets in poor neighborhoods or to visit the sick to give them comfort.

The Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia was born from the dream of Doña Nydia Quintero, which became a reality in 1975 with the support of collaborators and donors. At the time when the Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia came to life, there was no emergency care system in Colombia, access to health services was very limited for people with limited resources, and basic education was just a good idea with no real possibility of becoming a reality.

The Foundation has responded to the changes in the State's management and to the needs of the most vulnerable population, increasingly formalizing its programs and operations to provide support in those events where the action of the institutions cannot reach, either due to lack of resources, or because their processes prevent them from responding immediately. Doña Nydia appealed to the desire to help that she found among many people around her to create the Foundation.

 Emmy Noether (1882-1935)

At the beginning of the 20th century, women were victims of discrimination; However, Emmy Noether, of Jewish origin, managed to be one of the most important mathematics in history. He left great contributions to abstract algebra and fundamental physics. Albert Einstein called her the "most significant creative genius in mathematics since higher education for women began." She was the only woman enrolled in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Erlangen. When he finished, it was difficult for him to have an academic position, due to the rejection of women in Germany, he even taught classes at that university without any pay. In 1918 he formulated the theorem that bears his surname, which would serve to better understand modern physics; He managed to prove two essential theorems for the theory of relativity, which would allow to solve the problem of the conservation of energy. The most important things he inherited from mathematics were the results on axiomatization and the development of the algebraic theory of rings, bodies, and groups; in fact, today it is considered the "mother of modern algebra."

 Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was really one of the most important artists of the 20th century, who managed to transform her pain and suffering into total inspiration, art and creativity. But Frida was not only that, she also had a political and social conviction that is not often talked about, but which led her to take dangerous positions for the times she lived in.

From a young age, Frida Kahlo suffered countless situations of pain and suffering that led her to lose mobility in parts of her body, to have to remain prostrate, to have to undergo countless interventions. All this transformed her into a physically fragile and weak person, but with a great interior to give, to create, to expose. So she dedicated her life to a profession that she had always tried to develop with greater or lesser force: painting.

Frida Kahlo was not only an artist but also a woman committed to the world and the reality she lived in. As a communist like her husband, Frida exposed in her personal diary different thoughts against capitalism and wished for the arrival of a social revolution in which the powerful would fall and lose their power in front of the workers

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko. She spent the first six years of her life on her maternal grandmother's farm in Mississippi. She later moved with her mother to a poor neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When she was nine years old she was raped by one of her cousins. The teenager began the series of sexual abuse that Winfrey suffered over the next five years at the hands of three other men, all "friends" of her family. Because of her rebelliousness in adolescence, she was close to being sent to a reformatory, but with the help of her father she can overcome these hard events to become at nineteen she became the first African-American woman to appear on a Nashville newscast and years later, exactly in 1986 at the age of thirty-two, he began to host his own program, The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The show was presented on 120 channels and had 10 million audience members. By the end of the first year, she managed to defeat The Phil Donahue Show and raised a hundred and twenty-five million.

The same year, she landed a role in the film The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg, and was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.

In 2009 it was announced that Oprah Winfrey would be leaving her show once her contract with ABC ended (in 2011). After leaving the show, her Oprah began working on her own television network, the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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