Radicalism at the Crossroads : : African American Women Activists in the Cold War /

Radicalism at the Crossroads : : African American Women Activists in the Cold War / / Dayo F. Gore.

With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks’s 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this gap is due to the severe repression that radicals of any color in America faced as early as the 1930s,...

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Gore, Dayo F.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Forging a Community of Radical Intellectuals and Activists
  • 2. In Defense of Black Womanhood
  • 3. Reframing Civil Rights Activism during the Cold War
  • 4. Race and Gender at Work
  • 5. From Freedom to Freedomways
  • Conclusion. Centering Black Women on the Left
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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