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Hull received the National Institute's Women of Color Award for her contribution to this book. Her contribution to this "landmark scholarship directed attention to the lives of Black women and, combined with the numerous articles she wrote thereafter, helped remedy the emphasis within Feminist Studies on white women and within Black studies on Black men".
Maria W. Stewart. Maria W. Stewart ( née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and black, she was also the ...
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Sojourner Truth ( / soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; [ 1] born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. [ 2] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom ...
E185.61 .G8. Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man.
Kindred, page 229. Kindred explores how a modern black woman would deal with a slave society, where most black people were considered property; it was a world where "all of society was arrayed against you". During an interview, Butler said that, while she read slave narratives for background, she believed that if she wanted people to read her book, she would have to present a less violent ...
978-1-59403-086-4. OCLC. 57579375. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the ...
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly ( c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [ 2][ 3] Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America ...