African American women were largely excluded from the idealized image of 1950s domesticity portrayed in popular culture. ... Being a 1950s woman in the working world was hard enough.

Mahon’s history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and 1980s shifts trailblazing artists like LaVern Baker, the Shirelles, Labelle, Betty Davis, and Tina Turner back to ...

What a revelation it was to find out that women’s wrestling has its origins in Columbus, Ohio. Two former wrestlers-turned-promoters, Billy Wolfe and Al Haft set up shop Central Ohio in the 1950 ...

Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one of the most accomplished African American women in history. She was born in Decatur, Ala. but grew up in Chicago, and from a ...

When June Bacon-Bercey graduated with a degree in meteorology in the 1950s, there were hardly any women, let alone African-American women, in her field.. The same was true when she became an on ...

Eight children from Belle Glade were the inspiration for what became the first doll to accurately depict an African American child, in a way that parents and kids felt connected to the toy.

Sterilization abuse of African American women by the white medical establishment reached its height in the 1950s and 1960s. Women who went into the hospital to deliver children often came out ...

She said it will serve a nice complement to the house because the lead character, a woman, ... 897 Thomas St., South Bend, opens its 1950s African American Worker’s Home on Nov. 9.