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In her series “Obscured Women,” storyteller/teaching artist and living historian, Tammy Denease, introduces us into the world of fascinating women who have been obscured through the annals of history yet were instrumental as African-Americans in the American community.

Tammy Denease has developed performances and workshops appealing to a wide variety of audiences as she teaches history based on factual research.

The oral tradition workshops and presentations engage her audience through folk tales that teach life lessons and are coupled with hands on activities that leave her audience educated and eager to learn more.

Venture with Tammy  from the cotton fields of Texas to aviation history in Paris France with Bessie Coleman.

Live the life of Elizabeth Keckly, an enslaved woman, struggling to purchase her freedom as well as her body to become confidante to the First Lady at Lincoln’s White House.

Learn about Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman who had the determination to be a free person and fought for the right to be so.

Be denied the rite of passage into adulthood, as you experience the life of Margru, one of four children aboard the Amistad.

Grants are available for Historical Firsts Performances!