Resultado de búsqueda
Mary Burnett Talbert (born Mary Morris Burnett; September 17, 1866 – October 15, 1923) was an American orator, activist, suffragist and reformer. In 2005, Talbert was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Talbert was a pioneer in international organizing efforts, gaining a voice for Black women and developing Black female leadership. With conscious intent, she bridged the generation of 19th century abolitionists and freedom seekers: Tubman, Douglass, Truth, and others, and the developing civil rights leadership of the 20th century.
12 de jul. de 2024 · Mary Burnett Talbert was an extraordinary civil rights advocate in the early 20th century, and yet her name barely registers today. University at Buffalo researcher Lillian S. Williams, an expert on U.S. social and urban history, is working to change that.
Mary Burnett Talbert was an African American civil rights and anti-lynching activist and suffragist. Talbert was born on September 17, 1866, in Oberlin, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College in 1886, the only African American woman in her graduating class.
- B.A., Oberlin College
- September 17, 1866—October 15, 1923 (aged 57)
14 de ago. de 2020 · Talbert, born in 1866, was an early 20th-century reformer, described by the National Women’s Hall of Fame as a “civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist, preservationist, international human rights proponent, and educator.”
12 de ago. de 2020 · BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lillian S. Williams is writing a biography of Mary Burnett Talbert. A century separates the lives of these two women, but they share much in common: Both are educators and community activists. Both are deeply committed to the fight for social justice. Both are tireless in their work.
18 de feb. de 2009 · The next year, Mary B. Talbert became the first African American woman to win the NAACP’s Spingarn Award, the organization’s most significant honor for civil rights activity. Mary Burnett Talbert died in Buffalo, New York on October 15, 1923, at the age of 57.
