I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Keisha Robinson. You will help me tell stories of women like Sojourner Truth who was born Isabella “Bell” Baumfree. She delivered the speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio women’s Right Convention in 1851.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Brenda Derrick. She will help me tell stories of women like Charlotte E Ray. She was born in 1850 and was the first African American attorney in the United States. She was the first woman to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Bridgette Brown help me tell stories of women like Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, known as the “mother of the freedom movement” was a civil rights activist. She was part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was a secretary for the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP and later received a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Anonymous help me tell stories of women like Maya Lin, an American designer who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Beverly Chapman Wyatt help me tell stories of women like Mary Tape, a Chinese American who believed all children should have access to public education. In 1885, she sued the San Francisco School District so her children would have access to a good education.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Crystal Browning. You will help me tell stories of women like Dolores Huerta who was a labor leader and civil rights activist. A former girl scout and teacher, Huerta co founded the Agricultural Workers Association which set up voter registration drives. She directed the United Farm Workers national boycott of grapes taking the worker’s plight to the public.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Jackie Keller Anderson help me tell stories of women like Sarah Breedlove, who was known as Madame CJ Walker. She was one of the first female millionaires whos business was built to grow hair. She said, “I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.”
The Queens of Freedom project will focus on 17 women who have changed the way we live today. These women were queens in their own right, championing freedom and human rights. I will recast women like Sojourner Truth, Madame CJ Walker, Barbara Jordan and 14 more women to be modern day royalty.
This project will use models, costumes and props to remake pictures and tell the stories of their lives.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Annette Coolidge Udvardi help me tell stories of women like Dorothea Lange, a documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration..
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Kim Caraway. She will help me tell stories of women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was a social activist, abolitionist and leader in the women’s rights movement. Beyond voting rights for women, Stanton was concerned about parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights and the economic health of the family.
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