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Biography

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

  • Business
  • Literature
  • Women's Voices
  • Segregation & Community Building, 1890-1945
Cover image of "Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South"
Let the good work go on. Opposition is the life of an enterprise; criticism tells you that you are doing something. 
A photograph of an African American woman washing laundry outdoors in a yard. Clothes hand behind her on a line.
Historic Event

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

  • Women's Voices
Portrait of Bridget "Biddy" Mason
Biography

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

  • Women's Voices
Three quarter length oil painting portrait of a woman with closely cropped hair holding a teacup and saucer decorated.  She is dressed in a high necked red blouse with a yellow scarf. She also wears a black and white stiped pants.
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The Power of a Portrait

  • Women's Voices