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Continually working : Black women, community intellectualism and economic justice in postwar Milwaukee / Crystal Marie Moten.
Lippincott Library HD6096.W6 M67 2023
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moten, Crystal, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Black lives and liberation
- Black lives & liberation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Employment--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History--20th century.
- African American women.
- African American women--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Economic conditions--20th century.
- African American women--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- African American women--Economic conditions.
- African American women--Employment.
- Milwaukee (Wis.)--History--20th century.
- Milwaukee (Wis.).
- Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian National Museum of American History ; Nashville, Tennessee : in association with Vanderbilt University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the 1940s to the 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. "More Than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association
- 2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s
- 3. Working toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era
- 4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee
- 5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Job System in a Post-Civil Rights Era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-223) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Moten, Crystal, 1982- Continually working
- ISBN:
- 9780826505576
- 0826505570
- 9780826505583
- 0826505589
- OCLC:
- 1344421833
- Publisher Number:
- 99993493600
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