crossing the borders of region and race
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hendricks, Wanda A.
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 WIL 2014
- Thesaurus
- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, mensenrechten, etnische verhoudingen, Verenigde Staten, biografie, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Biography of Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), activist and reformer. The author shows how Williams became ‘raced' for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. In Chicago she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations, and became a spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization.