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Raising her voice : African-American women journalists who changed history Rodger Streitmatter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reading Room REF PN 4872.S66 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Streitmatter, Rodger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American journalists--Biography.
- African American journalists.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Journalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 208 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
- Contents:
- Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching
- Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement
- Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation
- Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance
- Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement
- Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow
- Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813108306 (acid-free)
- 0813118611 (acid-free)
- OCLC:
- 29028559
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