Set the World on Fire : : Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom / / Keisha N. Blain.

• VerfasserIn: Blain, Keisha N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 15 illus.

In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 19...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 1. Women Pioneers in the Garvey Movement
• 2. The Struggle for Black Emigration
• 3. Organizing in the Jim Crow South
• 4. Dreaming of Liberia
• 5. Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Politics
• 6. Breaks, Transitions, and Continuities
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments