"Discovering the scope of women's subjugation in every aspect of life—at home, in the workplace, in public spaces, in the media—was a gamechanger. Despite the region's progressive reputation, Alexandra notices that almost everything in San Francisco is named after men. She begins researching the lives of influential women who were relatively unknown or overlooked by history and KQED's Rebel Girls series is born in 2018."
"Delilah Beasley took history classes at UC Berkeley that inspired her 1919 book The Negro Trail-Blazers of California, which took her eight years to write. During her years in Berkeley, Beasley worked as a physical therapist, and ended up breaking racial barriers when she began writing an Oakland Tribune column, Activities Among Negroes, from 1923 to 1934."
Rae Alexandra, a feminist writer at KQED in San Francisco, discovered that despite the region's progressive reputation, almost everything is named after men. This observation prompted her to research influential women overlooked by history, leading to the Rebel Girls series in 2018. City Lights Publishers compiled her research into Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published in March during Women's History Month, with illustrations by Adrienne Sims. Nine of the profiled women were active in Berkeley. Delilah Beasley exemplifies these unsung heroines, having written The Negro Trail-Blazers of California and authored a newspaper column that challenged racist language in major publications.
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