![]() Mary Ewing Outerbridge didn’t have an easy time bringing tennis to America in 1874.įirst she had to get past customs agents. Mary Ewing Outerbridge Established what may have been America’s first tennis court in the 1870s.īY AMISHA PADNANI An illustration of Mary Ewing Outerbridge as it appeared in the book “Big Apple Almanac.” Undeterred, Qiu rose to become an early and fierce advocate for the liberation of Chinese women, defying prevailing Confucian gender and class norms by unbinding her feet, cross-dressing and leaving her young family to pursue an education abroad. As a girl, she wrote poetry and studied Chinese martial heroines like Hua Mulan (yes, ref=" /title/tt012076 2/ ">that Mulan) fantasizing about one day seeing her own name in the history books.īut her ambitions ran up against China’s deeply rooted patriarchal society, which held that a woman’s place remained in the home. ![]() With her passion for wine, swords and bomb making, Qiu Jin was unlike most women born in late 19th-century China. Qiu Jin A feminist poet and revolutionary who became a martyr known as China’s ‘Joan of Arc.’īY AMY QIN Qiu Jin, in an undated image, defied prevailing gender and class norms by unbinding her feet, cross-dressing and leaving her young family to pursue an education abroad. “It is with no pleasure that I have dipped my hands in the corruption here exposed,” Wells wrote in 1892 in the introduction to “Southern Horrors,” one of her seminal works about lynching, “Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.” But his lynching changed history because of its effect on one of the nation’s most influential journalists, who was also the godmother of his first child: Ida B. It was not all that unusual when, in 1892, a mob dragged Thomas Moss out of a Memphis jail in his pajamas and shot him to death over a feud that began with a game of marbles. Wells, one of the nation’s most influential investigative reporters, in 1920. Wells Took on racism in the Deep South with powerful reporting on lynchings.īY CAITLIN DICKERSON Ida B. ![]() Read an essay from our obituaries editor about how he approaches subjects and learn more about how the project came to be. You can use this form to nominate candidates for future “Overlooked” obits. We’ll be adding to this collection each week, as Overlooked becomes a regular feature in the obituaries section, and expanding our lens beyond women. ![]() Yet all of their deaths went unremarked in our pages, until now.īelow you’ll find obituaries for these and others who left indelible marks but were nonetheless overlooked. The vast majority chronicled the lives of men, mostly white ones even in the last two years, just over one in five of our subjects were female.Ĭharlotte Brontë wrote “Jane Eyre” Emily Warren Roeblingoversaw construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband fell ill Madhubala transfixed Bollywood Ida B. Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries: of heads of state, opera singers, the inventor of Stove Top stuffing and the namer of the Slinky. To look back at the obituary archives can, therefore, be a stark lesson in how society valued various achievements and achievers. Yet who gets remembered - and how - inherently involves judgment. ![]() Obituary writing is more about life than death: the last word, a testament to a human contribution. By AMISHA PADNANI and JESSICA BENNETT MARCH 8, 2018 ![]()
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