2010 Celebration & Events Celebrating Black History Month &
African American Women Jarena Lee a leading female preacher in
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was also an ardent
abolitionist and was a member of the American Antislavery
Society. In 1833 she published her experiences as a traveling
preacher in Religious Experience and Journal. Read more about
Mrs. Lee here. Photo: "Mrs. Jarena Lee. Preacher of the A.M.E.
Church. Age 60 years on the 11th day of the 2nd month 1844.
Philad 1844." Claudette Colvin was only fifteen in 1955 when she
was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
Her actions predated Rosa Parks by 9 months. Read an article
about Ms. Colvin here. Constance Baker-Motley one of the lawyers
involved in the case Brown v. Board of Education was a member of
the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund at the time. Brown v. Board of
Education was a landmark case helped launch the end of school
segregation. Baker-Motley went on to other important civil
rights cases and then onto a pol