Fannie Barrier Williams

Author : Wanda A. Hendricks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252095870

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Fannie Barrier Williams by Wanda A. Hendricks Pdf

Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.

Author : Fannie Barrier Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0875802931

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The New Woman of Color by Fannie Barrier Williams Pdf

Fannie Barrier Williams made history as a controversial African American reformer in an era fraught with racial discrimination and injustice. She first came to prominence during the 1893 Columbian Exposition, where her powerful arguments for African American women's rights launched her career as a nationally renowned writer and orator. In her speeches, essays, and articles, Williams incorporated the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois to create an interracial worldview dedicated to social equality and cultural harmony. Williams's writings illuminate the difficulties of African American women in the Progressive Era. She frankly denounced white men's sexual and economic victimization of black women and condemned the complicity of religious and political leaders in the immorality of segregation. Citing the discrimination that crushed the spirits of African American women, Williams called for educational and professional progress for African Americans through the transformation of white society. Committed to aiding and educating Chicago's urban poor, Williams played a central and continuous role in the development of the Frederick Douglass Center, which she called "the black Hull House." An active member of the NAACP and the National Urban League, she fought a long and successful battle to become the first African American admitted to the influential Chicago Women's Club. Her efforts to promote the well-being of African American women brought her into close contact with such influential women as Celia Parker Woolley, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Accompanied by Deegan's introduction and detailed annotations, Williams's perceptive writings on race relations, women's rights, economic justice, and the role of African American women are as fresh and fascinating today as when they were written.

Author : Brittney C. Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099540

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Beyond Respectability by Brittney C. Cooper Pdf

Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.

Author : Bert James Loewenberg,Ruth Bogin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271038247

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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life by Bert James Loewenberg,Ruth Bogin Pdf

Author : Wanda A. Hendricks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053573

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The Life of Madie Hall Xuma by Wanda A. Hendricks Pdf

Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.

Author : Mary Beth Norton,Ruth M. Alexander
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030159282

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Major Problems in American Women's History by Mary Beth Norton,Ruth M. Alexander Pdf

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, theMajor Problemsseries introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history.Major Problems in American Women's Historyis the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire chronological span. While attentive to the roles of women and the details of women's lives, the authors are especially concerned with issues of historical interpretation and historiography. The Fourth Edition features greater coverage of the experiences of women in the Midwest and the West, immigrant women, and more voices of women of color. Key pedagogical elements of theMajor Problemsformat have been retained: 14 to 15 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings. New!In Chapter 1, an exclusive essay by Kate Haulman examines the evolution of the field of women's history and the state of women's history today. New!Chapter 2 now focuses on Native American women, while a new Chapter 3 covers witches and their accusers in New England and the Salem witch trials. New!Chapter 6 draws on recent scholarship on the roles of ordinary and elite women in the numerous reform movements of the Early Republic. Revised!Chapter 7 rethinks and refocuses the text's coverage of women's roles in slavery and the Civil War, and more directly addresses the lives of African American women during and after slavery. New!Post-1960 coverage (in Chapters 15–16) has been thoroughly revised to highlight the women's movement, women's health, recent immigration, and economic changes affecting women.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598536652

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American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (LOA #332) by Susan Ware Pdf

In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates in the 2020 election and women's rights an increasingly urgent topic in the news, it's crucial that we understand the history that got us where we are now. For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims. Here, too, are the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if the right to vote were universal. Expertly curated and introduced by scholar Susan Ware, each piece is prefaced by a headnote so that together these 100 selections by over 80 writers tell the full history of the movement--from Abigail Adams to the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and the limiting of suffrage under Jim Crow. Importantly, it carries the story to 1965, and the passage of the Voting and Civil Rights Acts, which finally secured suffrage for all American women. Includes writings by Ida B. Wells, Mabel Lee, Margaret Fuller, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frederick Douglass, presidents Grover Cleveland on the anti-suffrage side and Woodrow Wilson urging passage of the Nineteenth Amendment as a wartime measure, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among many others.

Author : Mark D. Morrison-Reed
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781558966109

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Darkening the Doorways by Mark D. Morrison-Reed Pdf

Profiles, essays, and archival documents of African-American Unitarian Universalists.

Author : Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215358

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All the World Is Here! by Christopher Robert Reed Pdf

"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] . . . . An important reexamination of African American history." —Choice The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here!" examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.

Author : Hollis Robbins,Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143130673

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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins,Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : John William Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : African Americans
ISBN : CHI:24337188

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The Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship by John William Gibson Pdf

Author : Wanda A. Hendricks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253334470

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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest by Wanda A. Hendricks Pdf

..". Hendricks adds greatly to our understanding of change and continuity in this important period of women's history." -- American Historical Review From 1890 to 1920, African American club women in Illinois and other Midwestern states created hundreds of female associations and became social and political agents of reform and community uplift. Through their own volunteerism and fundraising they combated the problems of homelessness, unemployment, illiteracy, and poor health care that plagued their communities. The Illinois club women also played a primary role in the election of the first black alderman in Chicago. This is their inspiring story.

Author : Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001979280

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Aristocrats of Color by Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Shirley Wilson Logan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809321939

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We are Coming by Shirley Wilson Logan Pdf

Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She considers pertinent historical details--biological, social, political, and cultural facts and events--and provides a context for addressing various characteristics of a text. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters when, as in the case of Mary Ann Shadd, no written speeches exist.

Author : Allan H. Spear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1357055262

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Black Chicago by Allan H. Spear Pdf