Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Surviving in Bondage: The Enslaved African American Woman’s Experience
(Jetaun Bailey, Ph.D., Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, US)
Chapter 2. African American Women in the Abolition Movement: The Fight for Freedom
(Travis Robinson, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, US)
Chapter 3. Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell: Foremothers of Scholarship, Social Justice Activism and Black Women’s Empowerment
(Anthony B. Mitchell, Sr., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, US)
Chapter 4. Mamie Phipps Clark: The Forgotten Pioneer
(Karen Ethridge, Ph.D., Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, US)
Chapter 5. Her Voice Will Make a Mighty Roar: African American Women Student Led Activism During the Civil Rights Movement
(Janelle Renee Carter-Robinson, Ph.D., Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, US)
Chapter 6. A Clarion Call: Heroines of the Freedom Rides Movement
(Tonya Davis, Ph.D. and Katherine Whitaker, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, US)
Chapter 7. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Mississippians Fight for the Right to Vote and the Summer of Freedom
(Jaida D. Carter, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US)
Chapter 8. African American Women’s Clubs: Perseverance, Resistance, and Declination
(Jalonta Y. Jackson and Norissa Williams, Ph.D., Troy University, Troy, AL, US, and others)
Index