Better living by their own bootstraps : Black women's activism in rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 / Cherisse Jones-Branch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones-Branch, Cherisse, author.

Series:

Arkansas history (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Arkansas history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women political activists.

Arkansas--Rural conditions.

Arkansas.

Arkansas--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : The University of Arkansas Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps is the first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural Arkansas. The text explores Arkansas's rural history to foreground Black women's navigation of racial and gender politics as a means to uplift African Americans, develop opportunities for social mobility, and subvert the formidable structures of white supremacy during the Jim Crow years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Arkansas Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers

Home Demonstration Agents in Rural Black Arkansas Communities

African American Women's Activism in Rural Black Communities during the World War I Years

The 1927 Mississippi River Flood and Agrarian Activism in 1930s Arkansas

The State Council of Home Demonstration Clubs

The Arkansas Association of Colored Women

World War II

The Negro Division of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation Negro Division and the Spirit of Cotton Pageant

Rural Activism in 1950s Arkansas

Ethel B. Dawson and the National Council of Churches of Christ Home Missions Division

The National Negro Home Demonstration Agents Association

Annie Ruth Davidson Zachary Pike, an Arkansas Homemaker, Politician Activist.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682261668

1682261662

OCLC:

1196820268