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Author:

Andrews, Gregg.

Title:

Thyra J. Edwards, black activist in the global freedom struggle / Gregg Andrews.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

ix, 243 p. : ill, ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Edwards, Thyra J.,--1897-1953.
African American women--Biography.
African American women journalists--Biography.
African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
African American social workers--Biography.
Civil rights--History--20th century.
Employee rights--History--20th century.
Spain--Participation, American.--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "The spirit of Aframerican womanhood" -- Texas roots of rebellion under the chinaberry tree -- Social work and racial uplift in Gary, Indiana -- Getting a labor education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- Chain smoking and thinking "black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- Building a popular front in Chicago -- Conducting educational travel seminars to Europe -- With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- With health problems and the Spanish Loyalist refugees in Mexico -- The Double V years and marriage in New York City -- The final years in Italy.

ISBN:

0826219128
9780826219121

OCLC:

(OCoLC)671703397

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)