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Author:

Gore, Dayo F.

Title:

Radicalism at the crossroads : African American women activists in the Cold War / Dayo F. Gore.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women political activists--History--20th century.
Women radicals--United States--History--20th century.
African American radicals--History--20th century.
Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.
Feminism--United States--History--20th century.
Communism--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Forging a community of radical intellectuals and activists : Black women, the Black left, and the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and 1940s -- In defense of Black womanhood : race, gender, class and the politics of interracial solidarity, 1945-1951 -- Reframing civil rights activism during the Cold War : the Rosa Lee Ingram case, 1948-1959 -- Race and gender at work : from the labor journalism of Marvel Cooke to Vicki Garvin and the National Negro Labor Council, 1935-1956 -- From freedom to freedomways : Black women radicals and the Black freedom movement in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : centering Black women on the left.

ISBN:

081473278X (e-book)
9780814732786 (e-book)
0814732364 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814732366 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)630468442

LCCN:

2010033744

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)