What I Learned From the EOTO Assignments - Week 7

Listening to my classmates, I was able to learn about a variety of different journalists and writers form different time periods, experiences, and accomplishments. However, they all did have their similarities. My favorite "journalism heroes," tend to be the women and minority writers. I did find my own, William Lloyd Garrison, interesting, but I feel as if I attained more information when listening to my peers' presentations.

                

                         Mary Ann Shad, the first Black woman in North America to be an editor for a weekly newspaper.                                                                                                From National Women's Hall of Fame

 The ones specifically I found interesting were Mary Ann Shadd, Mary Margaret Mcbride, and Ida B. Wells. My fellow student's presentations were in depth and descriptive enough to help me understand and experience how being a journalist, especially a woman and a black woman for some of them, was so difficult. I learned their lives and some exact events and occurrences in their lives, but I also learned how strong they were because they managed to do remarkable things, such as being the first Black woman publisher in the United States and the first woman publisher in Canada, being a full time mother but also co-founding the NAACP and help lead the civil rights movement, and being the "First Lady of Radio." 

                                          

                                      Mary Margaret McBride, dubbed "The First Lady of Radio." From The Famous People.

I think it is pretty amazing; these women pioneered many different revolutions, uprisings, and more. They paved the way and made significant changes and differences for many generations of activists, young women, minorities, and more. 

Their impacts are still seen today, in many movements such as the furthering of the NAACP, BLM, and women suffrages moving forward into the future. 

These women are quite literally are the cornerstones and constructors of societal development! In fact, I personally believe these women should be praised and respected more modernly. I have only merely heard mention of some of their names; others not at all. In some instances, their works are on the same level if not higher and more important than what other historical events that are considered "important."

       A photograph of Ida B. Wells, one of the first women in the U.S. to keep her last name after marriage. From Biography