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Women in RI history - Black Women: Then and Now Index
  

lack Women: Then and Now

     How do you know how far you've come until you know where you started? For Black History Month in 1997, the HERS section of the Providence Journal-Bulletin began to answer that question by comparing historical black women in various fields with their modern counterparts.

PART 1: Are we making any progress?
     THEN: Sissieretta Jones: A voice of great richness
     NOW: Rose Weaver: ' Applause does not feed you'
     THEN: Elleanor Eldridge: Entrepreneurial pioneer
     NOW: Marcia Carpenter: A passion for real estate

PART 2: Playing Politics
     THEN: Bertha Higgins: Marshaling the black vote
     NOW: Mildred T. Nichols: Fighting for who decides the issues

PART 3: Keeping the faith in community service
     THEN: Roberta J. Dunbar: Crusader for social justice
     NOW: Deborah McCrea: Carring on the spirit of activism

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