Name: Black Women in White America

Full name: Black Women in White America: A Documentary History

Author: Gerda Lerner
Year: 1972
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History, Feminism, Non Fiction

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9780679743149
0679743146
In this documentary history, black women themselves tell not only what it's like to be oppressed --as blacks and as women--but also how they have managed to survive. Here are stories of women who built a school "on a garbage dump"; of the little-known but vitally important networks of women's organizations dedicated to self-help and the struggle for human dignity; of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, beatings and lynchings. The documents, many of them previously unpublished and long hidden in archives across the country, fill in important chapters in the history of America. "Dr. Lerner gives us material which can change images that whites have had of blacks, and possibly even those which we, as blacks, have of ourselves." -Maya Angelou, 'Life'
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