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Recovering Five generations hence : the life and writing of Lillian Jones Horace
Part I includes an edited and annotated version of Five generations hence, Lillian B. Horace's first novel, a utopia set in Africa. Part II consists of eight scholarly essays that grew out of a symposium, Celebrating the Life and Works of Lillian B. Horace and Other Extraordinary Women of the Jim Crow Era, held March 6-7, 2009 at Texas Southern University in Houston.
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'They say' : Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race
Few students have had the opportunity to consider the contrasting social identties pursued by African Americans following abolotion of slavery, nor to understand how whites’ skewed construction of those aspirations were a reaction against them. The story of Ida Wells provides a useful narrative frame for understanding the treacherous crosscurrents of race that shaped social identites.Wells was born into slavery in 1862, of mixed parentage, and raised in Mississippi. Her thrist for education and high social aspiration, combined with her strong personality, led her to speak out in ways often at odds with Victorian feminine ideals. She was expelled from Rusk Cllege in a dispute with its white president; she taught school in Memphis, where she brought a suit against the Chesapeake reailroad after being thrown off for refusing to leave the first-class cas; and she spoke out against the increasing segregation in the Memphis school system. After race riots and lynchings in Memphis in 1892, she embarked full-blown on the career for which she is now remembered, as an outspoken writer and lecturer against lynching.
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A forgotten sisterhood
Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South.
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Mary McLeod Bethune : woman of courage
\"Read about Mary McLeod Bethune's life. Discover how she started a school, and worked in the White House\"--Provided by publisher.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken
nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public
speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and
Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education
and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial
oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American
woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her
importance does not stop there. She was an active participant in
many of the social and political movements that influenced
nineteenth century abolition, black emigration and nationalism,
women's rights, and temperance.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and
Protest in the Nineteenth Century explores her remarkable life
and offers a window on the free black experience, emergent black
nationalisms, African American gender ideologies, and the formation
of a black public sphere. This new edition contains a new epilogue
and new photographs.
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Princess of the Hither Isles : a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south
A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination. Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement, passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of color. Her determination-as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist -to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele Logan Alexander-Adella Hunt Logan's granddaughter-portrays Adella, her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical research, and literary imagination into a riveting, multigenerational family saga.
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Mary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism
Discusses the life of Mary McLeod Bethune and seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding her fight for equality.
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