Want to start a revolution?
Subtitle: radical women in the Black freedom struggle
By: edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard.
Contributors: Gore, Dayo F.; Theoharis, Jeanne.; Woodard, Komozi.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780814783139; 9780814783146
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century; African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century; Women radicals -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American radicals -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and file party members. But what about Vicki Garvin, a Brooklyn-born activist who became a leader of the National Negro Labor Council and guide to Malcolm X on his travels through Africa? What about Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman? From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change, embracing multiple roles to sustain the movement, founding numerous groups and mentoring younger activists. Helping to create the groundwork and continuity for the movement by operating as local organizers, international mobilizers, and charismatic leaders, the stories of the women profiled in Want to Start a Revolution? help shatter the pervasive and imbalanced image of women on the sidelines of the black freedom struggle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "No small amount of change could do" : Esther Cooper Jackson and the making of a Black Left feminist / Erik McDuffie; title: What "the cause" needs is a "brainy and energetic woman " : a study of female charismatic leadership in Baltimore / Prudence Cumberbatch; title: From communist politics to Black power : the visionary politics and transnational solidarities of Vicki Garvin / Dayo F. Gore; title: Shirley Graham Du Bois : portrait of the Black woman artist as a revolutionary / Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens; title: "A life history of being rebellious" : the radicalism of Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis; title: Framing the panther : Assata Shakur and Black female agency / Joy James; title: Revolutionary women and the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School / Ericka Huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest; title: Must revolution be a family affair? : revisiting the Black woman / Margo Natalie Crawford; title: Retraining the heartworks : women in Atlanta's Black arts movement / James Smethurst; title: "Women's liberation or Black liberation, you're fighting the same enemies" : Florynce Kennedy, Black power, and feminism / Sherie M. Randolph; title: To make that someday come : Shirley Chisholm's radical politics of possibility / Joshua Guild; title: Denise Oliver and the Young Lords : stretching the political boundaries of struggle / Johanna Fernandez; title: Grassroots leadership and Afro-Asian solidarities : Yuri Kochiyama's humanizing radicalism / Diane C. Fujino; title: "We do whatever becomes necessary" : Johnnie Tillmon, welfare rights, and Black power / Premilla Nadasen.