APRIL 29: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Empress Zewditu I

Empress Zewditu I of Ethiopia born in 1876. She became the first woman head of an internationally recognized state in Africa in modern times.


Lillian Bertha Jones Horace

Lillian Bertha Jones Horace, a pioneering educator and writer, was born today in 1880. Texas’s earliest known African American woman novelist, and one of only two known black southern women novelists of the early to mid twentieth century, she was also one of only two black women nationally to own a publishing company before 1920.