Judith Black
Judith Black's historic tales, commissioned by the US Deptartment of the Interior, NPR, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the USS Constitution Museum and many others, have received standing ovations at the Smithsonian Institution and storytelling festivals worldwide. She has keynoted the National Interpreters Conference, followed by a standing ovation after her address on discerning truths from exploring multiple vantage points on our national history. One of America's finest storytellers, she was inducted into the National Storytelling Network's Circle of Excellence "for exceptional commitment and exemplary contribution to the art of storytelling" in 2001.
Contact
c/o Esther Weiner
Sharon, MA 02067
elweiner@comcast.net
Work: 781-784-6394
Available Program Formats: In person or online presentations
Judith Black's Programs
Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of the Abolition and Women's Rights Movements
In this first-person interpretive program, Judith Black introduces American Lucy Stone, the first woman hired by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society as a public speaker and the "Shining Star" of the Abolition and Women's Rights Movements. The presenter dispels well-worn platitudes about the antebellum North by interjecting historic and personal truths about these social reform movements. Her presentation also paints a dynamic and detailed picture of what it takes to change the world you are born into. Follow Lucy as she makes her case for tax resistance, her challenges to marriage laws and motherhood, and her pro-Emancipation response to the Civil War. Go with her to The American Equal Rights Association Convention in May 1869, where she eloquently supports the 15th Amendment, which gave African-American men the vote.
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The Rabble Rousing: Mary Harris Jones
This first person interpretive presentation brings alive our nation’s most notorious and effective labor and union organizer, Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930). Mother Jones, as the working people called her, traveled though-out this nation, with nothing more than a small satchel on her back and organized mill and mine workers to stand up for “Their god given rights.” As a female, radical, and labor organizer she broke every mold of her era and laid the groundwork for a workers movement that would effect this nation profoundly for the next seven decades.
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