Black Texas women : 150 years of trial and triumph / Ruthe Winegarten ; Janet G. Humphrey and Frieda Werden, consulting editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winegarten, Ruthe, author.

Contributor:

Humphrey, Janet G., 1943- editor.

Werden, Frieda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunt, Annie Mae, 1909-.

Hunt, Annie Mae.

African American women--Texas--History.

African American women.

Texas--History--1846-1950.

Texas.

Texas--History--1951-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women of all colors have shaped families, communities, institutions, and societies throughout history, but only in recent decades have their contributions been widely recognized, described, and celebrated. This book presents the first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood. Beginning with slave and free women of color during the Texas colonial period and concluding with contemporary women who serve in the Texas legislature and the United States Congress, Ruthe Winegarten organizes her history both chronologically and topically. Her narrative sparkles with the life stories of individual women and their contributions to the work force, education, religion, the club movement, community building, politics, civil rights, and culture. The product of extensive archival and oral research and illustrated with over 200 photographs, this groundbreaking work will be equally appealing to general readers and to scholars of women's history, black history, American studies, and Texas history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

"She Is My Sister" by Niobe

PART I The Antebellum Period

1. Free Women of Color

2 Slavery

PART II Reconstruction and Redemption

3 First Freedom

4 Resistance

PART III Education and Culture

5 Freedmen's Bureau Schools and Public Schools

6 Higher Education

7 Culture and Social Life

PART IV The New Century

8 Work

9 Clubs and Community Building

10 The Fight for Suffrage and against Lynching

PART V The Modern Period

11 World War II

12 The Civil Rights Movement

13 Breaking the Glass Ceiling

"Prelude to Ashe" by Hermine Pinson

Appendix 1 Educators

Appendix 2 Officeholders

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Photo Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-292-76801-X

OCLC:

1280943485