African American women confront the West : 1600-2000

African American women confront the West : 1600-2000 /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Taylor, Quintard, Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
Subjects:
African American women > West (U.S.) > History.
African American women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
African American women.
African American women > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
West (U.S.) > Race relations.
West United States.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The West of African American women, 1600-2000 / Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor
  • Chapter 2: African American women in Western history: past and prospect / Glenda Riley
  • The Spanish-Mexican period / Isabel de Olvera Arrives in New Mexico
  • Chapter 3: To be black and female in the Spanish Southwest: toward a history of African women on New Spain's far Northern frontier / Dedra S. McDonald
  • The Antebellum West / A Texas slave's letter to her husband, 1862
  • Chapter 4: Mining a mythic past: the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant / Lynn M. Hudson
  • A voice from the oppressed to the friends of humanity
  • Chapter 5: Rights of passage: gendered-rights consciousness and the quest for freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870 / Barbara Y. Welke
  • The Post-Civil war era
  • Chapter 6: "Anxious foot soldiers": Sacramento's black women and education in Nineteenth-century California / Susan Bragg / Willianna Hickman's Nicodemus sage
  • Homesteading on the plains: the Ava Speese Day story
  • Chapter 7: Women of the Great Falls African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870-1910 / Peggy Riley
  • Kate D. Chapman describes blacks in Yankton, Dakota territory
  • A black woman on the Montana frontier
  • Chapter 8: "Is there no blessing for me?: Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a Mormon African American woman / Ronald G. Coleman
  • The Early Twentieth century
  • Chapter 9: "The mountains were free and we loved them": Dr. Ruth Flowers of Boulder, Colorado / Susan Armitage
  • Nettie J. Asberry: African American Club woman in the Pacific Northwest
  • Chapter 10: Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the campaign for social justice in the Pacific Northwest / Quintard Taylor
  • Marcus Garvey: A Seattle woman remembers
  • Chapter 11: "Try being a black woman!": Jobs in Denver, 1900-1970 / Moya B. Hansen
  • Hattie McDaniel wins an Oscar
  • Chapter 12: From Peola to Carmen: Fredi Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Hollywood's portrayal of the tragic mulatto / Alicia I. Rodriquez-Estrada
  • World War II / Lyn Childs confronts a racist act
  • Etta Germany writes to the President
  • Chapter 13: Women made the community: African American migrant women and the cultural transformation of the San Francisco East Bay area / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
  • Chapter 14: "Eight dollars a day and working in the shade": an oral history of African American migrant women in the Las Vegas Gaming industry / Claytee D. White
  • The Civil Rights era
  • Chapter 15: Lulu B. White and the integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 / Merline Pitre
  • Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Chapter 16: Lucinda Todd and the invisible petitioners of Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas / Cheryl Brown Henderson
  • Chapter 17: Clara Luper and the Civil Rights movement In Oklahoma City, 1958-1964 / Linda Williams Reese / Elaine Brown: Black Panther
  • Chapter 18: Black radicalism in 1960s California: women in the Black Panther Party / Jane Rhodes.

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