In Search of Sisterhood is a rich history of the largest black women's organization in the United States. With alumni such as Lena Horne, Roberta Flack, and Barbara Jordan, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority has been, in Paula Giddings' words, a "compelling reflection of black women's aspirations". Now--finally--here is its remarkable story.
In her landmark appraisal of black women's unsung contributions to the struggles for racial and sexual equality, Giddings draws on speeches, diaries, and letters of influential black women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to reveal how black women have transcended the double discrimination of being ...
In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, "Ida: A Sword Among Lions" is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by ...
The highly acclaimed author of When and Where I Enter has written the history of the largest black women's organization in the United States, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority--a book that also tells of the increasing involvement of black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Photos.
Burning All Illusions is a collection from The Nation archives of the best writing on race and civil rights from the magazine's founding in 1865 to the present. It features selections by such insurgent American writers as Martin Luther King, Jr. , Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ishmael Reed, and Patricia J. Williams, ...
The first history of black women activists, this is a narrative history tracing the concerns of black women and what they did about them--from the 17th century to the present. "A triumphant study destined to become a prime sourcebook".--Publishers Weekly.
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