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03888aim a2200457Ii 4500 001 1919E5EEC8E811EB9BB532342BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210609010106 007 sd fungnn|m|ed 008 210427s2021 nyunnnne b n eng d 020 $a 9781662068614 020 $a 1662068611 035 $a (OCoLC)1247896043 040 $a GRR $b eng $e rda $c GRR $d OCLCO $d IWB $d SILO 082 04 $a 305.42092 $2 23 100 1 $a Lovett, Laura L., $e author. 245 10 $a With her fist raised : $b Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of black community activism / $c Laura L. Lovett. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Beacon Press Audio, $c [2021] 300 $a 4 audio discs (4 hr., 47 min.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 045017 511 0 $a Read by Sandra Sims. 520 $a The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women's movement. Historian Laura Lovett weaves together a biography of an activist who was intersectional to the core revealing a remarkable legacy that few have known until now and will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, activism, and Black women's history. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s, who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for five years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Lovett traces Pitman Hughes' transformation into a powerhouse activist determined to take on the needs of her community and build a platform for empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, a community subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and sub-standard housing, in which poverty, drug use, lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident She imagined and then created a high quality child care center which also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance and food resources. Pitman Hughes' realization that the area could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature and influence grew to a national level, Pitman Hughes went from the West Side to spending several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. Pitman Hughes's community activism was transformed when she moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification. She bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant in order to demonstrate that black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned business only to be thwarted by plans for economic development that favored national chains over local businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Pitman Hughes' understood the transformative power of activism with the Black community. 500 $a Title from container. 500 $a Compact disc. 600 10 $a Hughes, Dorothy Pitman. 650 0 $a African American feminists $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women civic leaders $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American businesspeople $v Biography. 650 0 $a Feminism $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1945- 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 650 0 $a Biographies. 700 1 $a Sims, Sandra, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20210609010535.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1919E5EEC8E811EB9BB532342BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search