black women's activism from world war I to the new deal
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Nikki
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenorganisaties, zwarte vrouwen, acties, anti racisme, Verenigde Staten, eerste wereldoorlog, 1900-1949
- Description
- A political history of middle-class African American women during World War I and the decade that followed. Brown reveals the scale of grassroots organizing during this period. She tries to explain why black women made considerable financial contributions to the American and Allied war effort, given the hostile racial climate of the day. After the war women's organizations such as the National Association of colored Women's Clubs shifted their focus from uplift to anti-lynching and anti-racism work and this resulted in the Anti-Lynching Leage, organizing one milion women.