In the case of teaching our children about
their "heroes and sheroes", you can't teach
what you don't know. But there are many women
who's names will probably never be known because
women were marginalized even in the Civil
Rights Movement. We are just beginning to
read about some of them. Dr. Giddings mentioned
a lot of them, like Fanny Lou Hamer. Fanny
Lou was a very strong woman, did many things.
There was, just think of it, Rosa Parks, she
named Rosa Parks. Ella Baker, she has mentioned
her. Those are the ones we kind of know. But
then there are many others who did many things.
Diane Nash is probably one of the most unsung
sheroes that we have. Diane was just in her
early twenties when she was directing the
Freedom Rides and she had to deal with a bus
being burned down and finding more people,
and inspiring them to go down South to ride
those buses.
