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Until there is justice : the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman / Jennifer Scanlon.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.H44 S29 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990.
- Hedgeman, Anna Arnold.
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Civil rights workers.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- African American women civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Prologue: a purposeful life
- A midwestern childhood
- Education: the first measure of independence
- Teaching in the segregated south
- Heading north to spread the word: the YWCA years
- Harlem and Brooklyn in the great depression
- World War II: a time for racial justice
- Fighting for fair employment, fighting for Truman
- "New world citizen": developing a national portfolio, an international consciousness, and an FBI file
- Running for office
- "A burr in the saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, white protestants, and the March on Washington
- The "double handicap of race and sex": African American women and the March on Washington
- The Commission on Religion and Race
- Moving the justice fight north
- Black power, woman power
- Refusing retirement: the Hedgeman Consultant Service
- Epilogue: fighting for heaven, right here on earth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190248598
- 0190248599
- OCLC:
- 907657591
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