Still lifting, still climbing : contemporary African American women's activism /
Springer, Kimberly,1970-
New York ; London : New York University Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Introduction : African American women redefining activism for the millennium / Kimberly Springer -- Barbara Smith : a home girl with a mission / Patricia Bell-Scott -- To be young, female, and Black / Angela Ards -- Vision statement / National Black Women's Health Project -- African American women are for reproductive freedom -- African American women in defense of ourselves -- M.I.T. Conference : final resolution : Black women in the Academy -- "Triple jeopardy" : Black women and the growth of feminist consciousness in SNCC, 1964-1975 / Kristin Anderson-Bricker -- The making of the vanguard center : Black feminist emergence in the 1960s and 1970s / Benita Roth -- "Inside our dangerous ranks" : the autobiography of Elaine Brown and the Black Panther Party / Margo V. Perkins -- Racial unity in the grassroots? : a case study of a women's social service organization / Kristin Myers -- "Necessity was the midwife of our politics" : Black women's health activism in the "post"-civil rights movement era (1980-1996) / Deborah R. Grayson -- Black women in Congress during the post-civil rights movement era / Sharon D. Wright -- Engendering the Pan-African movement : field notes from the All-African Women's Revolutionary Union / M. Bahati Kuumba -- Talking Black, talking feminist : gendered micromobilization processes in a collective protest against rape / Aaronette M. White -- Onamove : African American women confronting the prison crisis / Jennifer E. Smith -- Behind but not forgotten : women and the behind-the-scenes organizing of the Million Man March / Wendy G. Smooth and Tamelyn Tucker -- Crossing lines : Mandy Carter, grassroots activism, and mobilization '96 / Lynn M. Eckert and Dionne Bensonsmith -- Documenting the struggle : African American women as media artists, media activists / Frances Gateward -- "Workers just like anyone else" : organizing workfare unions in New York City / Vanessa Tait -- Epilogue : African American women's activism in the global arena / Loretta J. Ross.
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