#ourfirsts

#womenshistorymonth #justice #rva #icon #ourfirsts #educators Rosa L. Dixon Bowser was an American educator. She was the first black teacher hired in Richmond, Virginia. She organized the Virginia Teachers' Reading Circle, which became the Virginia State Teachers Association, the first organization representing black teachers in Virginia, serving as the organization's president from 1890 to 1892. Bowser was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Virginia, as well as founder and first president of the Richmond Woman's League. She was a correspondent for the magazine The Woman's Era, and wrote essays for national publications. The first branch of the Richmond Public Library to serve African-American patrons was named for Bowser. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-X02BHDncz/?igshid=14fkzo4vi8do9

#womenshistorymonth #justice #ourfirsts #courage #education Dorothy Counts-Scoggins is an American civil rights figure who was one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, North Carolina. After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents forced her to withdraw from the school. To honor Mrs. Counts-Scroggins sacrifice for integrating schools in 1957, the city of Charlotte, NC named May 31, 2019 Dorothy Counts-Scroggins Day. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-VLSnEjwci/?igshid=1ryvmg0hgjwae

#womenshistorymonth #justice #protectthevote #ourfirsts #voteordie UNITA Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. Blackwell, who was born in a sharecropper’s shack in Mississippi in the depths of the Depression, grew up having no idea what it meant to vote. She did not even know the word. Then, in 1964, civil rights activists arrived in her corner of the South. They told her about voting, she said years later — that it could put food on the table and help her find decent housing, “that the vote was the key, that you would have the say-so and that you could get those things into your community.” But she also learned that just trying to register to vote in Mississippi could get a black person killed. These realizations marked her political awakening, prompting her to lead voter registration drives and devote herself to the civil rights movement. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-TFQ1KDLDG/?igshid=fvt2ylehrden

First bbq at our new place! First meal on the new grill! First meal outside! Awww... cheesy #grilling #bbq #ourfirsts #houseliving https://www.instagram.com/p/B0KdAH0Jf3p/?igshid=ahs3zyalnd5f

💖 #EKFamilyDay2019 #OurFirsts (at Enchanted Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxGMJ0iAIY6/?igshid=3fuv0r3fw34l