February is Black History Month and to celebrate, I thought I share links to all the posts here on Scandalous Women & around the blogosphere that have celebrated the achievements of Black Women over the centuries.
Elizabeth Keckly - Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker
Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary
Sally Hemings - Dusky Sally: The Controversy over Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings
Marie Laveau: Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
Josephine Baker
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Ida Wells-Barnett: Crusader for Justice
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues
Queen Ranavalona - The Mad Monarch of Madagascar