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
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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
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.