"Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault."
You can have them taught in the rudiments of useful knowledge; and then you can have private teachers who will instruct them in the higher branches; and their intelligence will become greater than ours, and their children will attain to higher advantages, and their children still higher; and then, though we are dead, our works shall live ... Find out more about Stewart's beliefs and philosophies in MARIA W. STEWART: AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN POLITICAL WRITER by Marilyn Richardson (Indiana UP, 1987) >> http://www.pbs.org