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MARCH 7 - 14, 2002 Women in History
March 7, 1917
Janet Collins, ballerina, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
March 10, 1913
Death of Harriet Tubman, Auburn, New York.
March 10, 1965
Daisy Lampkin, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, died from the effects of a December 1964 heart attack.
March 11, 1959
Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York Citywith Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil in the lead roles. The play ran for 530 performances, becoming the longest running Broadway play written by an African-American. This was also the first Broadway drama written and directed by an African-American woman. In 1961 'A Raisin in the Sun' was made into a movie, again starring Sidney Poitier as the chauffeur Walter Younger. Hansberry's landmark career was cut short when she died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 34.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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