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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an …
Working Cures
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of …
Community of Suffering and Struggle
Elizabeth Faue traces the transformation of the American labor movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding …
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood
In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that …
Southern History across the Color Line
The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, we often still write …
Imagining Medea
Art as activism; ""This ain't no Dreamgirls,"" Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her …
Yours in Sisterhood
In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming …
Closer to Freedom
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, …
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. …
Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take …
The Veiled Garvey
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey …
Wives without Husbands
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute ""deadbeat dads,"" ""Wives without Husbands"" traces the efforts of …