Title: Raising her voice : African-American women journalists who changed history /
Authors: Streitmatter, Rodger
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne.; Dunnigan, Alice Allison,; Beasley, Delilah L.; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.,; Cary, Mary Ann Shadd,; Stewart, Maria W.,; Mossell, N. F.,; Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre.; Cooke, Marvel.; Bass, Charlotta A.; Payne, Ethel L.; African American women Biography; African American journalists Biography.; Journalism United States History; Journalism United States History
Contents: Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration -- Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching -- Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement -- Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation -- Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance -- Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement -- Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow --Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle.