Black Women Who Made A Difference

This informative nonfiction book was written to inspire young women and girls. They will see the struggles and adversities in which the brave, intelligent, and motivated women including the author in this book endured to overcome to reach their goals.

This nonfiction book is written to tell these women's stories with a little flair of poetry to attempt to hold the interest of the readers.

These brave women went around, though, or over obstacles that were in their way to overcome. They did not take "No." for an answer. If they did it, so can girls and young women of today.

Dr. Minnie Ransom holds a life California Standard Teaching Credential; A life California Adult Education Credential; A life Standard Teaching-Early Childhood Credential; is certified in the education of English Language Development (ELD); and Gifted and Talented (GATE) students.She knows struggles, discrimination, adversities, inequities, and the importance of education. Often she was the only Black student in classes throughout high school, college, and at her teaching sight.Dr. Ransom is a long- term private and public educator who has worked with all age groups including preschoolers through high school. She has successfully owned and operated a private school that served infants through third grade students for academics and daycare. She has been a long-term public educator of general education, GATE students, and English Learners in public schools including preschool, through high school, Juvenile facilities, and adult education.Dr. Ransom discovered as a young child that she wanted to pursue a career in education when she used to teach her younger cousins what she had learned in first grade. Now she is pursuing educating through the means of print.