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Title:

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

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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--History--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--History--History--20th century.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Gore, Dayo F.
Theoharis, Jeanne.
Woodard, Komozi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0814732305
9780814732304
0814783147 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814783146 (pb : alk. paper)
0814783139 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814783139 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)326484307

LCCN:

2009029215

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)