E-book
It's our movement now : Black women's politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Record details
- ISBN: 0813069483
- ISBN: 9780813069487
- ISBN: 0813068819
- ISBN: 9780813068817
- ISBN: 0813072506
- ISBN: 9780813072500
- ISBN: 9780813070230
- ISBN: 0813070236
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Beyond the minority plank / Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles -- Part I. Symbols of sisterhood -- Coretta Scott King: icon as activist / Rachel Jessica Daniel -- Michelle Cearcy: carrying the "torch of equality / Amira Rose Davis -- Part II. Sisters in action -- Dr. Gloria Dean Rundle Scott: raising the gavel with hope for all women / Janine Fondon -- Human rights on the homefront: Dorothy Height and spirit of Houston / Julie A. Gallagher -- "I hope we won't turn our backs on the masses of women in Florida": Dr. Freddie Groomes-McLendon, the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and the struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment / Johanna M. Ortner -- "Each one teach one": Dr. Jeffalyn Johnson on the power of community, representation, and education / Lindsay Amaral -- Part III. Activist organizers -- Florynce Kennedy: a radical voice / Kirsten Leng -- Bringing depth to the movement: race, gender, and (dis)ability in the life of Georgia McMurray / Crystal Lynn Webster -- Beyond Combahee: Barbara Smith and black radical feminism / Julie de Chantal -- Johnnie Tillmon: welfare as a women's issue / Laura L. Lovett -- Addie Wyatt: bridging social movements / Marcia Walker-McWilliams -- Part IV. The politicians -- Barbara Jordan: conveying the charge and the challenge / Camesha Scruggs -- Beyond the symbolism: Shirley Chisholm, black feminism, and women's politics / Zinga A. Fraser -- C. Delores Tucker: delegate-at-large / Sabina Peck -- "I was me": Yvonne Burke and the politics of representation / Sarah B. Rowley -- Maxine Waters: "I stood with Coretta Scott King" / Carlyn Ferrari -- Part V. Communicating change -- Clara McLaughlin: "I don't want ON, I want O-W-N" / Destiney Linker -- An everyday anchorwoman / Melba Tolliver -- Sharing a precious gift: photographing the National Women's Conference / Diana Mara Henry. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2022). |
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| Genre: | History. |
