What image comes to mind when you think of the women’s suffrage movement in America? A woman in a long suffragette white dress? Is she Chinese? She was.
Category: Strong Women
The Daughter of the Desert
The dashing British officer Lawrence of Arabia, is a legend of history. Yet, we should recognize the name, Gertrude Bell, along with (or more than) his.
The Unsolved Murder of Alberta Odell Jones
An African American equal rights trailblazer and the city’s first female and first black prosecuting attorney was brutally murdered. The case remains unsolved.
The Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans Movement
Sylvia Rivera hated labels almost as much as she hated discrimination. Some call her the Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans movement.
Rebel Soldier, Spy, or Swindler
Loreta Velázquez, aka Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, tells a story of deception and danger. Was she a rebel soldier, spy, or swindler?