Who said lift as you climb

Lift seeks to build on legacies of struggle and determination, community, and hope like those of Terrell and countless educators who have led efforts to promote educational opportunity and human rights.

In this spirit, we aspire to generate the kind of community and compassion that engenders change in the lives of all involved. Lift as You Climb provides a sense of community and a sense of purpose for College of Education students.

It connects them with each other and the larger community to work toward change. Lift is a leadership development program based on enriching and promoting the strengths and values of all participants.

The Lift model—the development of collectives, small groups of committed participants—is designed to engage alumni, university students and community members, and organizations in various areas of interest toward a culminating community-based initiative.

Through leadership development seminars, discussions of the implications of identity in leadership, and support in developing and executing a culminating project, Lift connects participants through shared interests and an investment in creating more equitable and sustainable educational institutions and spaces. Terrell acknowledges that while there is a existing audience of white female readers for her book, the publishing industry has failed to acknowledge the large untapped market of Black female readers that she feels her book could be effectively marketed and sold to as well.

She writes in the same letter:. Even though I published it privately I was forced to omit something which was was not of any great consequence, to be sure, but which should have been told.

However, I did tell it in a way that the reader could understand perfectly what was on my mind. In our popular imagining, the suffragette has taken on a set of stock characteristics. And she is white. Although not inaccurate, this view of the suffragette and the suffrage movement is incomplete.

With this approval, the United States reached the 36 states required to add the amendment to the constitution. Board of Education decision. Near the mid-point of her life, the 19th Amendment was passed, a reminder for Terrell then, and us today, that while some progress has been achieved, there is still a very long way to go. Terrell, Mary Church. A colored woman in a white world. Washington, D. Sterling, Dorothy. Black Foremothers: three live s. Old Westbury, N. She graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio.

She used her education to fight for people to be treated equally for the rest of her life. As an African American woman, Mary experienced the sexism faced by women in the United States and the racism towards African Americans. This organization was founded in Wells were also members.

The members faced racism in the suffrage movement, and Mary helped raise awareness of their struggle. While Mary lived to see her hard work pay off with the right to vote in , she did not stop being an activist.

She continued to fight for equal rights for the rest of her life. She passed away on July 24, She was 90 years old. This year, as we remember the ratification of the 19 th Amendment, we should also remember the women, like Mary Church Terrell, who fought for their right to vote. Sexism: In this example, to treat someone worse, be unfair towards someone because they are a woman. Racism: To treat someone worse, be unfair towards someone because of their race.

In this example, because they are African American. Activism: To take action to try and change something. Usually in politics or society.