Apropos of Ellen's post, I was suprised to see that President Obama also made a Jewess with Attitude reference when he characterized Dorothy Height as "Queen Esther to this Moses Generation."
I've thought a lot about Height in recent months while working on our forthcoming Living the Legacy civil rights curriculum, and on the Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS) lesson in particular. The WIMS stories were not among the stories I knew about the Civil Rights Movement before beginning work on this project, and I am interested to see if the mentions of WIMS in Obama's eulogy and other tributes will lead to greater awareness for the organizing these women did.
Today the pictures of and references to Height's hats also brought to mind for me yet another Jewess with Attitude, Bella Abzug. I found it all the more fitting that Abzug too is paired with Queen Esther here, in our Go & Learn on costumes, leadership, and identity.
Apropos of Ellen's post, I was suprised to see that President Obama also made a Jewess with Attitude reference when he characterized Dorothy Height as "Queen Esther to this Moses Generation."
I've thought a lot about Height in recent months while working on our forthcoming Living the Legacy civil rights curriculum, and on the Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS) lesson in particular. The WIMS stories were not among the stories I knew about the Civil Rights Movement before beginning work on this project, and I am interested to see if the mentions of WIMS in Obama's eulogy and other tributes will lead to greater awareness for the organizing these women did.
Today the pictures of and references to Height's hats also brought to mind for me yet another Jewess with Attitude, Bella Abzug. I found it all the more fitting that Abzug too is paired with Queen Esther here, in our Go & Learn on costumes, leadership, and identity.