AlexBreanne.org and Women’s History Month

Apparel
Written By John Mills

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are providing gear specifically themed towards the leadership role African American Women played in school integration in America. We have items that list the names Sarah Harris, the six women of the Little Rock Nine and the New Orleans Four which included Ruby Bridges.

We also honor The National Association of Colored Women’s Club (NACWC), which was established in 1896 with founding members Harriet Tubman and Ida B. Wells. The organization began as a response to their needs being excluded by The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) led by Susan B. Anthony who knew their causes attained greater success when they excluded the concerns of Black people. The original 1896 logo of the NACWC was purple, so we used that color in homage.

BTW...the NACWC’s slogan was “Lifting As We Climb“, establishing a clear distinction between themselves and the exclusionary nature of Susan B. Anthony’s organization.

We will discontinue specialized apparel sales after March. This was intended to just be a limited opportunity to disseminate African American history on apparel as a means to help fund our mission to research and disseminate information celebrating the forgotten. We will only provide apparel in February, March and June.

We would love to hear any feedback on the gear we've offered! Also, if you want more information into our designs and/or the names referenced on the designs, those details are listed under each item on our storefront page.

Thank you all for the incredible support and God bless.

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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