Rebellious Daughters of History #40 by ,,Judy Cox America Rising: Charlene Alexander Mitchell (1930) Born in Cincinnati in 1930 in Ohio, Charlene migrated with her working-class family to Chicago. During the World War II, she grew up in the Frances Cabrini Housing Rowhouses and took classes at nearby Moody Bible Institutes. When she was just […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #39 by Farida Haque (guest contribution) and ,,Judy Cox Why the Statues Must Fall: Leela Roy (Bengali: লীলা রায়) (1900 – 1970) Leela was born into an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kayastha family in Sylhet in Bengal and educated at the Bethune College in Calcutta, graduating with a gold medal […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #38 by ,,Judy Cox Why the statues must fall: Wambui Otieno and the Mau Mau Uprising (1936-2011) Wambui was born in Kiambu District in southern Kikuyuland on 1936 to a well-off family of landowners. Her father, Tiras Waiyaki Wantoni, was a police inspector and her three elder brothers were educated in […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #37 by ,,Judy Cox The fire last time: Ada Wright and the Scottsboro Boys On March 25, 1931, nine young Black men—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy and Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, and Eugene Williams—were arrested for raping two white women on a train in Paint […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #36 by ,,Judy Cox and Shona Pollock (guest post) America Rising: From ‘Freedom Now’ to ‘Black Power’: Kathleen Neal Cleaver (1945-) Kathleen Neal Cleaver was born in Dallas, Texas. Her parents were both activists and college graduates of the University of Michigan. When her father joined the Foreign Service, the family […]