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African American women held together Black households and their communities while adapting and overcoming obstacles they faced due to their gender, race, and class. [3] Many women used their communities and local church to gain support for the movement, as local support proved vital for the success of the movement. [4]
The Seneca Falls Convention, widely lauded as the first women's rights convention, is often considered the precursor to the racial schism within the women's suffrage movement; the Seneca Falls Declaration put forth a political analysis of the condition of upper-class, married women, but did not address the struggles of working-class white women ...
Women, Race and Class is a 1981 book by the American academic and author Angela Davis.It contains Marxist feminist analysis of gender, race and class.The third book written by Davis, it covers U.S. history from the slave trade and abolitionism movements to the women's liberation movements which began in the 1960s.
They were not alone in being unsure of black male support for women's suffrage. Frederick Douglass, a strong supporter of women's suffrage, said, "The race to which I belong have not generally taken the right ground on this question." [104] Douglass, however, strongly supported the amendment, saying it was a matter of life and death for former ...
Feinstein, Rachel. "Intersectionality and the role of white women: an analysis of divorce petitions from slavery." Journal of Historical Sociology 30.3 (2017): 545–560. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (U of North Carolina Press, 1988). online
This work is an important contribution to the history of the black freedom struggle, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone who cares about human rights in America. [33] In 2014, the Selma City Council renamed five blocks of Lapsley Street as Boyntons Street to honor Amelia Boynton Robinson and Sam Boynton. [34]
Jacqueline A. Rouse earned a B.A. from Howard University in 1972 and an M.A. from Atlanta University in 1973. She then went on to doctoral study at Emory University, where she wrote a dissertation titled "Lugenia D. Burns Hope: A Black Female Reformer in the South, 1871-1947" under the direction of Dr. Darlene Rebecca Roth. [2]
Black women make up less than 3% of U.S. representatives and there were no Black women in the U.S. Senate as late as 2007. [ 86 ] In comparison to Black men, Black women tend to be more active participants in the electoral process and this could lead to more potential for Black women to equal or surpass Black men in the number of elected ...