Want to start a revolution? : radical women in the Black freedom struggle / edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gore, Dayo F.

Theoharis, Jeanne.

Woodard, Komozi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women civil rights workers--History--20th century.

African American women civil rights workers.

African American women political activists--History--20th century.

African American women political activists.

Women radicals--United States--History--20th century.

Women radicals.

African American radicals--History--20th century.

African American radicals.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Feminism--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism.

Communism--United States--History--20th century.

Communism.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2009]

Summary:

From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson to Shirley Chisholm and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change by embracing multiple roles to sustain the black freedom movement. They operated as local organizers, international mobilizers, and charismatic leaders, founded numerous groups, and mentored younger activists-all to create the groundwork and continuity for the movement. The stories of the women profiled in Want to Start a Revolution? help shatter the pervasive and imbalanced image of women as the supporting cast of the black freedom struggle.

Komozi Woodard is Professor of American History, Public Policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics.

Contents:

"No small amount of change could do" : Esther Cooper Jackson and the making of a Black Left feminist / Erik S. McDuffie

What "the cause" needs is a "brainy and energetic woman " : a study of female charismatic leadership in Baltimore / Prudence Cumberbatch

From communist politics to Black power : the visionary politics and transnational solidarities of Victoria "Vicki" Ama Garvin / Dayo F. Gore

Shirley Graham Du Bois : portrait of the Black woman artist as a revolutionary / Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens

"A life history of being rebellious" : the radicalism of Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis

Framing the panther : Assata Shakur and Black female agency / Joy James

Revolutionary women, revolutionary education : the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School / Ericka Huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest

Must revolution be a family affair? : revisiting The Black woman / Margo Natalie Crawford

Retraining the heartworks : women in Atlanta's Black arts movement / James Smethurst

"Women's liberation or

Black liberation, you're fighting the same enemies" : Florynce Kennedy, Black power, and feminism / Sherie M. Randolph

To make that someday come : Shirley Chisholm's radical politics of possibility / Joshua Guild

Denise Oliver and the Young Lords Party : stretching the political boundaries of struggle / Johanna Fernández

Grassroots leadership and Afro-Asian solidarities : Yuri Kochiyama's humanizing radicalism / Diane C. Fujino

"We do whatever becomes necessary" : Johnnie Tillmon, welfare rights, and Black power / Premilla Nadasen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814783139

0814783139

9780814783146

0814783147

OCLC:

326484307