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Want to start a revolution? : radical women in the Black freedom struggle / edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard.

Other author/creatorGore, Dayo F.
Other author/creatorTheoharis, Jeanne.
Other author/creatorWoodard, Komozi.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionix, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
African American women civil rights workers--History --20th century.
African American women political activists--History --20th century.
Women radicals--United States --History --20th century.
African American radicals--History --20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights --History --20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States --History --20th century.
Black power--United States --History --20th century.
Feminism--United States --History --20th century.
Communism--United States --History --20th century.
United States--Race relations --History --20th century.
Contents "No small amount of change could do" : Esther Cooper Jackson and the making of a Black Left feminist / Erik McDuffie -- What "the cause" needs is a "brainy and energetic woman " : a study of female charismatic leadership in Baltimore / Prudence Cumberbatch -- From communist politics to Black power : the visionary politics and transnational solidarities of Vicki Garvin / Dayo F. Gore -- Shirley Graham Du Bois : portrait of the Black woman artist as a revolutionary / Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the radicalism of Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis -- Framing the panther : Assata Shakur and Black female agency / Joy James -- Revolutionary women and the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School / Ericka Huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest -- Must revolution be a family affair? : revisiting the Black woman / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Retraining the heartworks : women in Atlanta's Black arts movement / James Smethurst -- "Women's liberation or Black liberation, you're fighting the same enemies" : Florynce Kennedy, Black power, and feminism / Sherie M. Randolph -- To make that someday come : Shirley Chisholm's radical politics of possibility / Joshua Guild -- Denise Oliver and the Young Lords : stretching the political boundaries of struggle / Johanna Fernandez -- Grassroots leadership and Afro-Asian solidarities : Yuri Kochiyama's humanizing radicalism / Diane C. Fujino -- "We do whatever becomes necessary" : Johnnie Tillmon, welfare rights, and Black power / Premilla Nadasen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009029215
ISBN9780814783139 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0814783139 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814783146 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0814783147 (pb : alk. paper)

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