Celebrating Black Women’s History: Achievements, Strengths and Struggles
By Dr. Maulana Karenga
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and Liberation’s Coming From A Black and Beautiful Thing. And that Black and Beautiful thing is
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righteous and relentless struggle we wage together to radically confront and transform society and achieve and expand African and human good and the well-being of the world. And
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a decisive leadership role and
other critical roles
As we mark this year’s Black History Month II: Women’s Focus, we will again pay rightful homage to the pioneers, heroines, and way-makers who made ways out of no-way, who opened up ways for so many others, breaking down barriers, crossing boundaries, creating and increasing opportunities for women and girls, and others marginalized and excluded, and making great sacrifices and strides in the service of women, our people and humankind. But as we celebrate Black women in their most awes
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William Henry Dorsey was an information hoarder. An African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia, Dorsey suffered from a “malady” that afflicted others of his era: archive fever. He spent much of his long life he was born in 1837 and died in 1923 clipping newspaper articles and pasting them into one or another of nearly 400 scrapbooks, organized by topic.
Dorsey’s scrapbooks represent a bricolage of one man’s far-ranging interest in African American history and culture. He clipped articles mainly from northern newspapers, Black and white, including some extremely rare publications. The scrapbooks hold articles on Black emigration schemes, fraternal orders, actors, and centenarians who lived through slavery. Dorsey devoted one scrapbook to an 1881 North Carolina convention of Black Republicans, one of many such gatherings at which African Americans envisioned post-emancipation political futures. He devoted another scrapbook to lynchings,