The values of the United States of America have not always been what they are today. Equality, has not always applied to everyone, however, another value of the United States, progress and change, aided in the development of the value of equality for all. The following speeches: Maria W. Stewart advocates for the education of African-American women, Mary Church Terrell’s “The Progress of Colored Women”, and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good” show the increasing amount of equality and opportunities black women in the United States obtained and the United States’ progressing tolerance for them.
Maria W. Stewart, born as a free black woman, delivered a speech to the African American Female Intelligence Society,…