As we continue to support female authors, please be sure to pick up your copy of Legacies.
Legacies: A Guide for Young Black Women in Planning Their Future
Constance Gipson and Hazel Mahone, Ed.D.
List $45 (Hardcover) $40 (softcover)
Hardcover edition: ISBN: 978-0-9897114-0-1
Paperback edition: ISBN: 978-0-9897114-1-8
First Edition Full color 320-page, 8 ½" x 11" book
Published by the Vision 200 Educational Foundation.
For more information visit: www.legaciesforyoungwomen.com
About the authors
Constance F. Gipson served as the Gender Equity Consultant for the California Department of Education for over twenty years. She administered nontraditional programs for women and men as well as programs for teen parents, single parents, single pregnant women and displaced homemakers.
Ms. Gipson helped create Images for African American young women. She co-authored Visions for African American males and wrote the Visions Activity Guide.
Ms. Gipson is the author of The Black Man's Guide to Parenting and A Different Kind of Hero, a three-volume collection of biographies of over 400 people, including many women and minorities, who had an impact on American history. She has produced award winning videos productions and is a national presenter and keynote speaker on school-to-work.
Dr. Hazel W. Mahone has been involved at every level of education, from kindergarten through the university.
Dr. Mahone is a full-time professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University Sacramento, a major training center for principals and teachers in multicultural communities. She is also President/CEO of Vision 2000's College Prep Math & Reading Academy that she founded 15 years ago. She brings underachieving students to the campus where they learn critical math and reading skills while being exposed to the university campus.
Dr. Mahone was the first female superintendent in Sacramento County. She is an inspirational speaker, retreat facilitator and has mentored and taught numerous students who today serve as exemplary principals, assistant principals, superintendents and district office personnel in California schools.
What People Are Saying
With its blending of stories of ancient and contemporary powerful black women, beautiful art, poetry, practical exercises and more, Legacies is an exceptional tool to help young women today develop successful life skills.
—Dr. Patricia Hill, Ph.D., Professor, University of San Francisco, editor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
“What a motivational, educational and inspirational work! Legacies is a great resource to learn about our ancestry and about some of our amazing African American women and their accomplishments today! After reading this work, young women will be inspired to dream big – because anything really is possible!!!”
-- Stephanie C. Hill, President Lockheed Martin, Information Systems & Global Solutions –
I truly enjoyed Legacies: A Guide for Young Black Women in Planning Their Future. I especially like the juxtaposition of ancient African royal women and leaders with contemporary Black women. Young Black women and girls can see the connection between their present day selves and the ancestors. How refreshing too for young readers to learn that the African continent is so vast and such an integral part of world history. Africa is not just a country populated by lions, elephants, starving children, and warring tribes. …[]… The artwork and the poetry add another dimension to the book. The artwork brings a wonderful visual component that reflects the text. The classic poems of Mari Evans, “I am a Black Woman;” Carolyn Rodgers, “How I Got Ovah,” and Nikki Giovanni’s, “Ego Tripping,” among many others, will speak to the hearts and souls of many readers. There is a lot here to encourage young black women to grasp their future with both hands and soar above the adversities that life can bring.
—Joyce Hansen, author, African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women and Home is with Our Family
-- Love Rae
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