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For 3 Years In The Row, This 8-Year-Old Girl Dresses Up As Iconic Women For Black History Month (30 pics)
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In honor of black history month, a mother and a daughter teamed up to recreate photos of iconic black women.
Back in February 2017, Cristi Jones decided to commemorate the month by dressing her 5-year-old daughter and shared the results on Twitter. While there were so many women worth to mention, Cristi decided to take one photo per day and narrowed down the list to 29 memorable figures. Not only did her daughter had so much fun picking out costumes and dressing up, but she also learned about important black women throughout history. The mom and daughter duo has been continued this tradition for the last 3 years. Scroll below to see the result!
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First Black female pilot. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8219610/?ref_=nv_sr_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells#Influence_on_black_feminist_activism_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(activist)#Little_Rock_Integration_Crisis
Poet. First Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks
Author. You have two chances to see her this month (Washington, D.C. and Houston): http://www.nikki-giovanni.com/book-tour
Civil rights activist: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dorothy-height
First Black female elected to Congress. https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/10918
Civil rights activist. https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/fannie_lou_hamer
Adorable way to represent these great people from history. Thumbs up to you, child!
Wonderful images and a beautiful child with a bright future. Amazing tribute!
Educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune
Born a slave; became a philanthropist. https://www.blackpast.org/aaw/vignette_aahw/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
Note: this post originally had 47 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Wow! For a five-year-old, she really captures facial expressions. Future actress?
My thoughts exactly! She can convey emotions in a very mature way.
Amazing tribute to amazing women. I had to google some whom I had never heard of
I love these posts that make you go off and LEARN things
Me too, I loved googling and learning about some of these women that I hadn't heard before!
Now we know who all of them are. Google is amazing.
Full marks to the costume and accessories co-ordinater - all perfect.
Wow! For a five-year-old, she really captures facial expressions. Future actress?
My thoughts exactly! She can convey emotions in a very mature way.
Amazing tribute to amazing women. I had to google some whom I had never heard of
I love these posts that make you go off and LEARN things
Me too, I loved googling and learning about some of these women that I hadn't heard before!
Now we know who all of them are. Google is amazing.
Full marks to the costume and accessories co-ordinater - all perfect.