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It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference - Softcover

 
9780813068817: It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813068819 ISBN 13: 9780813068817
Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Profiles of influential Black women activists at a historic moment

This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference.

These women advocated for civil and women’s rights but also for accessibility, lesbians, sex workers, welfare recipients, laborers, and children.

The women featured in this book include icons Coretta Scott King and Michelle Cearcy, a teenager who served as a torchbearer at the conference. Contributors offer insights into the lives of Gloria Scott, Dorothy Height, Freddie Groomes-McLendon, and Jeffalyn Johnson. The profiles include activist organizers Georgia McMurray, Barbara Smith, Johnnie Tillmon, Addie Wyatt, and Florynce Kennedy. The hard-won achievements of politicians are examined and celebrated, including those of Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Maxine Waters, C. Delores Tucker, the first Black female secretary of state for Pennsylvania, and Yvonne Burke, one of the first Black women elected to Congress and the first representative to give birth while serving. The final profiles cover Clara McClaughlin, reporter Melba Tolliver, and photojournalist Diana Mara Henry, who shared the details of the conference and the continual work being done by Black women with others through various media channels. This book places the diversity of Black women’s experiences and their leadership at the center of the history of the women’s movement.

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Laura L. Lovett, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism.

Rachel Jessica Daniel is director of the Center for Employee Enrichment and Development and professor of English at Massasoit Community College.

Kelly N. Giles is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Verlag
University Press of Florida
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813068819
ISBN 13 
9780813068817
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
278
Herausgeber
Lovett Laura L., Daniel Rachel Jessica, Giles Kelly N.
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