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SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS
Select from a range of topics and formats
for your 2023 reading, viewing, or listening,
curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.
DID YOU KNOW? for February 7 – 20, 2023
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an African-American anti-slavery activist, an advocate for women's rights, a teacher, and a lawyer. A pioneering journalist, Cary became the first black, female newspaper editor in North America as a publisher of Canada’s first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman. As a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), Cary spoke at the NWSA's 1878 convention. She also served as an advocate for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Visit the Social Justice page for more about Mary Ann Shadd Cary or past DID YOU KNOW? features.
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DID YOU KNOW? – spotlighting notable contributions made by non-mainstream individuals you might not have learned or read about. Suggestions for inclusions are welcome (send to Kathy
at: ksmichaelis@gmail.com).
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