Scandalous Women Celebrates Black History Month
February is Black History Month and to celebrate, I thought I share links to all the posts here on Scandalous Women & around the blogosphere that have celebrated the achievements of Black Women over the centuries. Elizabeth Keckly - Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary Sally Hemings - Dusky Sally: The Controversy over Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings Marie Laveau: Voodoo Queen of New Orleans Josephine Baker Mary Ellen Pleasant Ida Wells-Barnett: Crusader for Justice Bessie Smith : Empress of the Blues Queen Ranavalona - The Mad Monarch of Madagascar