Called one of the many radicals in her time. Ida B. Wells was no silent woman. Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as one of seven kids to two former slaves. She was left to tend to her younger sisters after Yellow fever killed both of her parents and some of her siblings. In order to care for her siblings, she secured a job as a teacher, and eventually moved to Memphis to live with her aunt. It was here in Memphis, Tennessee that Wells literally fought for racial and gender justice. It was in 1884 that Wells had a runin with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company where she refused to give up her seat to a white person and be seated in the "Jim Crow" car. She was forcefully removed from the train, and as soon as her foot hit the soil of Memphis she hired an attorney to sue the railroad comapany. She won her case in the local circut courts, and won, but the railroad company appealed to the Supreme Court and had the case lowered. This ignited her carrer as a journalist, and gained her the partnership in the Free Speech and Headlight. Here she spoke through words on lynching and the many ways of blacks gaining equality. In 1895 she was married, and in 1909 became one of the founding members of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (NAACP). This making her one of the few to oppose Booker T. Washington and his ways on becoming equal. In 1931 Wells died, leaving behind a legacy of justice crusades.

Known for her best work to date, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her writings were expressive of the trials and tribulations, and rituals, African Americans (mainly women) faced in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Alambama, and growing up in Florida. Hurston later attended Howard University while working as a manicurist. She then was pulled into the whirl wind of boyent authors, painters, and musicans. Later she dabbled in the field of anthropolgy to study african american folklore. Eventually Zora Neale Hurston's popularity waned, with her last book being published in 1948, she moved to back to Florida. In 1960 she died there in poverty, with her work and high status life forgotten. In the 1970s Alice Walker helped revive the works of Hurston's writing and poetry. Today her literature is taught as a part of curriculum in schools around the world.

Today's HERstory figure is Philiis Wheatley. (b. circa 1754 d. 1784). Born in Gambia, and brought over to America around the age of 8 or 9, with no record of her previous name or day of birth. Her slave owners dubbed her with the name Phillis which was the ship she was held on until she reached America. Moving to the Wheatleys' plantation, the Wheatleys shunned asid e the fact that they were slave owners and let Phillis earn a education with thier daughter who was around the same as Phillis. They encouraged her to go forth with her poetry. When she was just twelve years of age, she published her poetry.Slave turned poet Phillis Wheatley became the first African American female to publish a book and support herself with writing. All happening before America formly existed.

With women on the rise of being big time tycoons in the job world, I thought it would only be right to acknowledge how some (African American ) women reached these high paid, high qualified jobs. With the struggles seeming like a pictures in a rearview mirror being vastly forgotten. I believe we should take time out to reevaulate ourselves as women so we do wrong the future generation of STRONG BLACK HERSTORY TELLERS.