{"id":3636,"date":"2023-03-04T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2023-03-04T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:17:00","slug":"honoring-lesser-known-women-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/honoring-lesser-known-women-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Lesser Known Women Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In every family, there are countless examples of women who courageously and quietly endured emotional, physical, societal, financial and other pressures. Yet, their lives crafted our family legacies. We are grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To honor them during Women&#8217;s History Month, dig a little deeper in your family archives and in the public domain to share their stories of inspiration, even if it seems that they led so-called ordinary lives. To help you get started in honoring our female ancestors, here are a few extraordinary Black women&#8217;s stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanging in Chicago&#8217;s DuSable Museum is this quilt handcrafted by a former slave, Melvina Young. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dusablemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Quilt-cover-601x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2221\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hand-stitched quilt cover, late 19th century Ms. Young&#8217;s &#8220;work likely created this quilt cover as free person, having been emancipated after the Civil War ended.&nbsp; Many enslaved people worked in the homes of the plantation owners.&nbsp; A common domestic role was that of seamstress, and Ms. Young probably learned to sew and quilt while working in her owner\u2019s Tennessee home.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gift of Daisy Lewis in Memory of Melvina Young<br>DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black women were vocal about atrocities of the post-Civil War and openly advocated for better health, educational, societal, family and living arrangements.  Some of their compelling stories are found <a href=\"https:\/\/transcription.si.edu\/articles\/mollie-davis-american-women-freedmens-bureau-records\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/image.png?w=370\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3640\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notesfromthefrontier.com\/post\/girls-with-guns\">Stagecoach Mary i<\/a>s legendary in many historical circles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"1508\" src=\"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.png?w=621\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1.png 915w, https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1-182x300.png 182w, https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1-621x1024.png 621w, https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-1-768x1266.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/violette-anderson-first-black-woman-to-practice-before-u-s-supreme-court\">Violette Anderson:<\/a> In 1926, she became the first Black Women who earned the right to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shown below in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Broad_Ax\">The Broad Ax<\/a>&nbsp;newspaper (July 29, 1922). Courtesy Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/image-2.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3646\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every family, there are countless examples of women who courageously and quietly endured emotional, physical, societal, financial and other pressures. Yet, their lives crafted our family legacies. We are grateful. To honor them during Women&#8217;s History Month, dig a little deeper in your family archives and in the public domain to share their stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}