My illustration of Betty Wingo the eldest sister of Ethel Johnson as well as a fellow wrestler. Stage name: Babs Wingo.

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My illustration of Ethel Blanche Hairston (née Wingo); stage name: Ethel Johnson. She was the first black American female wrestler as well as the first black American woman to hold the NWA World Women's Championship title.    

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(1859) - An armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown, launched an assault on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American

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(1851) - Abolitionist & delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Read it here: https://t.co/oC2qwrxd4Y

Artwork: John Foster Dyess; Steve Simon

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