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Anarcha Westcott
In the dusty medical archives of the 19th century, the name Anarcha Westcott appears quietly, not in headlines, but buried in surgical reports and footnotes. She was not a doctor. She was not a nurse. She was a young enslaved Black woman on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama. Her body became the unwilling stage for a series of surgical experiments that would transform the field of medicine, at a devastating human cost.
By Stories You Never Heard3 months ago in History
Aba Women's Riot
In the humid December of 1929, the dusty streets of southeastern Nigeria echoed, not with gunfire, but with the songs, chants, and defiant cries of thousands of women. They were not armed with weapons. They carried palm fronds, danced in circles, and raised their voices in a way the British colonial administration had never seen before.
By Stories You Never Heard3 months ago in History
