TimelineThis was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the Nazisverified_publisherTimeline - Nina Renata AronMorice Kamhi’s family was in Sarajevo when World War II broke out. The situation for Jewish families turned dire quickly. “First there was the yellow …
TimelineHow NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshopsverified_publisherTimeline - Brendan SeibelBy 1900, the majority of New Yorkers — some 2.3 million people — lived in tenement apartments. The tenements were single-family buildings that had …
TimelineShe was one of the first black women to host a television showverified_publisherTimeline - Ashawnta JacksonOn September 22, 1950, musician Hazel Scott appeared in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. She’d been named as a subversive — …
TimelineThe First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This Womanverified_publisherTimeline - Meagan DayRosina Corrothers Tucker was born in 1881 in Washington, D.C. She married a preacher, and might have lived a quiet life, except the preacher died, …
TimelineThis woman realized the sun’s potential long before the rest of the countryverified_publisherTimeline - Shoshi ParksIn 1948, Mária Telkes, the “Sun Queen,” built a house in Dover, Massachusetts. From the outside, it looked something like a regular home, only …
TimelineTowards a history of women of color in the workplaceverified_publisherTimeline - Qiana MestrichThere are few stories about the history of women in the workplace and practically none about black (and especially immigrant) women in the workplace. …
