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Good Morning! It is Wednesday, October 7. #OTD in 1907, Helen MacInnes was born. She was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which were later adapted as films. Her first book, Above Suspicion (1941), was an immediate hit

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@sherrod_im I’m glad you are here and surviving!

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She spent four years with a Union regiment — nursing the wounded, washing for them, and secretly teaching the soldiers to read between battles.

She was never paid. Not once. Not a dollar, for four years of war service.

Susie King Taylor. She was born enslaved in Georgia and had been taught to read in secret as a child, in a kitchen, by a free Black woman who ran a hidden school and made the children carry their books wrapped in paper so nobody would see.

At fourteen she escaped to Union lines and attached herself to the 33rd United States Colored Troops. She stayed four years.

She nursed men through smallpox when others would not go near them. She cleaned and loaded muskets. And she ran a school in camp — soldiers coming off duty to learn their letters from a teenage girl.

She was officially a laundress. Laundresses were supposed to be paid. She never received a cent, and said so plainly in her memoir.

In 1902 she published that memoir — the only full-length account of the Civil War published by a Black woman who served in it.

She also wrote about going south decades later and seeing a chain gang of Black men by the roadside, and asking what freedom had been for.

Four years of unpaid war work and a book nobody read for eighty years. She is one of the primary sources historians now rely on.

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Good Morning! It is Tuesday, October 6. #OTD in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She was an African American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

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Good Morning! It is Monday, October 5. #OTD in 1858, Helen Churchill Candee was born. She was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. Today, she is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and as a travel writer.

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Good Morning! It is Sunday, October 4. #OTD in 1896, Dorothy Lawrence was born. She was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier to report from the front line during World War I. In 1915, she went to France, where she managed to obtain a military uniform and a false ID

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Good Morning! It is Sat., October 3. #OTD in 1906, Natalie Savage Carlson was born. She was a 20th-century American writer of children's books. Carlson published her first story at *age eight* on the children's page of the Baltimore Sunday Sun. #Herstory

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Good Morning! It is Friday, October 2. #OTD in 1895 Ruth Cheney Streeter was born. She was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. In 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the USMC.

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[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

At eighty-six years old she started sitting in at segregated lunch counters in Washington DC.

Three years later she had desegregated every restaurant in the capital of the United States.

Mary Church Terrell. She was born during the Civil War to formerly enslaved parents, and by the 1890s was one of the most prominent Black women in America — a founder of the National Association of Colored Women, a founding member of the NAACP.

Then in 1949, at eighty-six, she found something in the law library.

Washington had passed laws in 1872 and 1873 making it illegal for restaurants to refuse "any respectable, well-behaved person" on account of race.

The laws had never been repealed. They had simply been left out of the city code and forgotten for seventy-five years.

She decided to enforce them.
She walked into Thompson's Restaurant with three companions in February 1950, was refused, and sued.

While the case ground through the courts she ran the campaign herself: picketing in the winter at eighty-seven and eighty-eight years old, leading boycotts, standing outside stores with a placard.

In June 1953 the Supreme Court ruled the lost laws were still valid. Washington's restaurants desegregated.

She died the following year at ninety.

She found a dead law in a book, picked it up, and used it to open a city. Nobody had looked for seventy-five years.

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