Until there is justice
Subtitle: the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
By: Jennifer Scanlon
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780190248598
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; Civil rights; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Description: In Until There Is Justice, author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a purposeful life; title: A midwestern childhood; title: Education: the first measure of independence; title: Teaching in the segregated south; title: Heading north to spread the word: the YWCA years; title: Harlem and Brooklyn in the great depression; title: World War II: a time for racial justice; title: Fighting for fair employment, fighting for Truman; title: "New world citizen": developing a national portfolio, an international consciousness, and an FBI file; title: Running for office; title: "A burr in the saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, white protestants, and the March on Washington; title: The "double handicap of race and sex": African American women and the March on Washington; title: The Commission on Religion and Race; title: Moving the justice fight north; title: Black power, woman power; title: Refusing retirement: the Hedgeman Consultant Service; title: Epilogue: fighting for heaven, right here on earth.