When was the African-American journalist which was among the majors of "Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities" born?
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities was an anthology of biographies of African American women edited by Monroe Alpheus Majors published in 1893 in Chicago. Majors sketched the lives of nearly 300 women, including Edmonia Lewis, Amanda Smith, Ida B. Wells, and Sojourner Truth. Majors began to compile the book in Waco, Texas in 1890. He hoped to show the worth of black women for themselves and as an expression of the value of all African Americans. A significant omission from the book was Harriet Tubman. The book sought to shape contemporary attitudes and historian Milton C. Sernett hypothesizes that including Tubman would invoke memories of the pain of slavery.
Rebecca Burns Rebecca Burns is a journalist, professor, author, and speaker in Atlanta in the U.S. State of Georgia. Burns has taught journalism at Emory University and the University of Georgia. She is deputy editor "Atlanta magazine" has written three books on Atlanta history: "Burial for a King; Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and the week that transformed Atlanta and rocked the nation" (Scribner, 2011), "Atlanta: Yesterday and Today" (West Side Publishing, 2010), and "Rage in the Gate City; The story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot" (University of Georgia Press, 2009 and Emmis Books, 2006). Her articles have covered subjects related to social justice, economic justice, civil rights, and urban development in media including "Atlantic Cities" and "Politico". As of 2014 she was writing "The Second Burning of Atlanta" about the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.