Unceasing Militant : the Life of Mary Church Terrell /
"Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of Colored Women a...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Emancipation to Brown
- 1. The Roots of Activism
- 2. Love and Partnership
- 3. Leading the National Association of Colored Women
- 4. The Black Elite: Finances, Militancy, and Family
- 5. The Invasion of Jim Crow, 1913-1914
- 6. Black Feminism: Contesting Stereotypes and Asserting Equality
- 7. Civil Rights and Partisan Politics, 1890-1932
- 8. Ruth Hanna McCormick's Senate Campaign
- 9. Attraction and Politics in the Great Depression: Representative Oscar Stanton DePriest
- 10. Discrimination and Partisan Politics in New Deal Agencies
- 11. Remaining Republican during the Rise of the New Deal Democrats
- 12. Religion: Personal Peace and Social Justice
- 13. Fighting for Equality: Integration and Anticommunism
- 14. The Black Freedom Struggle