The third in a major new series of books based on the remarkable NMAAHC photography archive.
Hill Testifies against Clarence Thomas In August 1991 an aide to Ohio Democrat Senator Howard Metzenbaum , a member of the Judiciary Committee , received a tip that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill during her employment with ...
Many entries contain personal statements from the subjects provided exclusively for this 3 volume series, and all provide biographical data and a list of sources for additional study.
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote.
The book looks at chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist, and it concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women ...
This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.
Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late ...
Featuring a variety of voices including Johnetta B. Cole, Marsye Conde, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Toni Morrison, Iyanla Vanzant, and Alice Walker, this collection demonstrates the diverse ways that women connect with ...
Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the ...
This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United ...
Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.