AAUW and the NAACP hosted a panel of African American female professors discussing discrimination, human rights, stereotypes, being a double minority, and gender equity

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Powell, Frankie Denise

English

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

African American SeriesMaking HERstory: A Black Women's Panel3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 2Frankie Denise Penn Powell, Ph.D.• Double minority • Discrimination in the workplace• Stereotypes• Empowerment Double Minority3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 3Genderhttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/12/14/gender-discrimination-comes-in-many-forms-for-todays-working-women/3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 4Black Womenhttps://www.aauw.org/article/black-women-and-the-pay-gap/3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 5Madam C.J. Walker• “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations….I have built my own factory on my own ground.” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 6June Jordan• “I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 7Discrimination in the Workplace3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 8“What SHE said…..”3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 9Zora Neale Hurston• “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 10Stereotypes3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 11Phylicia Rashad• “There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.”3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 12Harriet Tubman• “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 13Audre Lorde• “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. ” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 14Empowerment3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 15Beyoncé• “You have the power to change perception, to inspire and empower, and to show people how to embrace their complications, and see the flaws, and the true beauty and strength that’s inside all of us.” 3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 16W.E.B. DuBois3/21/2019 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved. 17

Making HERstory: A Black Women's Panel

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Making HERstory: A Black Women's Panel

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