Black Women S Rights

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541618602

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Vanguard by Martha S. Jones Pdf

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan Brownell Anthony,Matilda Joslyn Gage,Ida Husted Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Women
ISBN : UTEXAS:059171201162088

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History of Woman Suffrage: 1883-1900 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan Brownell Anthony,Matilda Joslyn Gage,Ida Husted Harper Pdf

Author : Maroula Joannou,June Purvis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0719048605

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The Women's Suffrage Movement by Maroula Joannou,June Purvis Pdf

Presents the best of recent feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity, richness and diversity.

Author : Belinda Robnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199761698

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How Long? How Long? by Belinda Robnett Pdf

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness. Drawing heavily on interviews with actual participants in the American Civil Rights movement, this work retells the movement as seen through the eyes and spoken through the voices of African-American women participants. It is the first book to provide an analysis of race, class, gender, and culture as substructures that shaped the organization and outcome of the movement. Robnett examines the differences among women participants in the movement and offers the first cohesive analysis of the gendered relations and interactions among its black activists, thus demonstrating that femaleness and blackness cannot be viewed as sufficient signifiers for movement experience and individual identity. Finally, this book makes a significant contribution to social movement theory by providing a crucial understanding of the continuity and complexity of social movements, clarifying the need for different layers of leadership that come to satisfy different movement needs. An engaging narrative history as well as a major contribution to social movement and feminist theory, How Long? How Long? will appeal to students and scholars of social activism, women's studies, American history, and African-American studies, and to general readers interested in the perennially fascinating story of the American Civil Rights movement.

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442991736

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All Bound Up Together by Martha S. Jones Pdf

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Mart...

Author : Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 025321176X

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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Pdf

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote. She analyzes the women's own stories, and examines why they joined and how they participated in the U.S. women's suffrage movement.

Author : Harriet Isecke
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433397691

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Harriet Isecke Pdf

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked hard to fight for equal rights of women. This encouraging biography details the lives and accomplishments of two of the most well-known women of the Suffrage Movement. Featuring captivating images, stunning facts, and an accessible glossary and index, readers will be enthralled and engaged from cover to cover as they learn about these incredible reformers!

Author : Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107021303

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Black Women and International Law by Gabrielle Kirk McDonald Pdf

Explores the manifold relationship between black women and international law, highlighting the historic and contemporary ways they have influenced and been influenced.

Author : Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin,Vincent P. Franklin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814716021

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Sisters in the Struggle by Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin,Vincent P. Franklin Pdf

Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.

Author : Janet Dewart Bell
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620973363

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Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell Pdf

Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the larger public. Beyond Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, most Americans would be hard-pressed to name other leaders at the community, local, and national levels. In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for justice that resulted in profound social change, stories that are vital and relevant today. A vital document for understanding the Civil Rights Movement, Lighting the Fires of Freedom is an enduring testament to the vitality of women's leadership during one of the most dramatic periods of American history.

Author : Stanlie M. James
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299333706

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Practical Audacity by Stanlie M. James Pdf

Follows the stories of fourteen women whose work honors and furthers Goler Teal Butcher's legacy. Their multilayered and sophisticated contributions have shaped human rights scholarship and activism--including their major role in developing critical race feminism, community-based applications, and expanding the boundaries of human rights discourse.

Author : Bell Hooks,The South End Press Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896087697

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Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks,The South End Press Collective Pdf

" Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."- The Village Voice  "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."- Sojourner  "[ Ain't I a Woman ] should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change."- Library Journal  "One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years."- Publishers Weekly  "I met a young sister who was a feminist, and she gave me a book called Ain't I a Woman by a talented, beautiful sister named bell hooks-and it changed my life. It changed my whole perspective of myself as a woman."-Jada Pinkett-Smith  At nineteen, bell hooks began writing the book that forever changed the course of feminist thought. Ain't I a Woman remains a classic analysis of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.  bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. The Atlantic Monthly celebrates her as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals .

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307798497

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Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.

Author : Lisa Tetrault
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469614274

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The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault Pdf

Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

Author : Julie A. Gallagher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094101

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Black Women and Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher Pdf

An essential contribution to twentieth-century political history, Black Women and Politics in New York City documents African American women in New York City fighting for justice, civil rights, and equality in the turbulent world of formal politics from the suffrage and women's rights movements to the feminist era of the 1970s. Historian and human rights activist Julie A. Gallagher deftly examines how race, gender, and the structure of the state itself shape outcomes, and exposes the layers of power and discrimination at work in American society. She combines her analysis with a look at the career of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for president on a national party ticket. In so doing, she rewrites twentieth-century women's history and the dominant narrative arcs of feminist history that hitherto ignored African American women and their accomplishments.