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Ella P. Stewart Students Bring Black History to Life
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Twenty third grade
students brought black history to life on Wednesday,
February 21 as they entertained and educated visitors on the
lives and accomplishments of 20 women who have figured
prominently in African-American history – national and
local.
Third grade teacher Jackie
Morris, now in her 15th year of organizing the
Living Wax Museum that pays tribute to historic
African-American women, tasks her students with researching
the lives of women. Once the essays are complete, they are
distilled into short time-bites that the students recite
when approached by visitors to the Living Wax Museum.
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This year the third
graders presented glimpses into the stories of Alice Parker,
inventor of a gas heating furnace; Stephanie Tubbs Jones,
former U. S. Representative from Cleveland, OH; Moms Mabley,
comedian; Gabrielle Douglas, Olympic gymnast; Kim Fields,
actor; Shirley Chisholm, former U.S. Representative from
Texas and a candidate for president; Mary McLeod Bethune,
educator; Fannie Lou Hamer, activist; Lyda Newman, inventor;
Ruby Bridges, a New Orleans, LA student; Bessie Coleman,
aviator; Condoleeza Rice, former Secretary of State; Jocelyn
Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General; Rosa Parks, civil right
icon; Ella P. Stewart, local activist; Mae Jemison,
astronaut; Wilma Rudolph, Olympic track star; Phillis
Wheatley, 18th century poet, Paula Hicks-Hudson,
Toledo’s first female black mayor and, our personal
favorite, Sojourner Truth, abolitionist.
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