Description |
390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-371) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Chapter 1 : West of African American women, 1600-2000 / Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor -- Chapter 2 : African American women in Western history : past and prospect / Glenda Riley -- Spanish-Mexican period -- Isabel de Olvera Arrives in New Mexico -- Chapter 3 : To be black and female in the Spanish Southwest : toward a history of African women on New Spain's far Northern frontier / Dedra S. McDonald -- Antebellum West -- Texas slave's letter to her husband, 1862 -- Chapter 4 : Mining a mythic past : the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant / Lynn M. Hudson -- Voice from the oppressed to the friends of humanity -- Chapter 5 : Rights of passage : gendered-rights consciousness and the quest for freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870 / Barbara Y. Welke -- Post-Civil war era -- Chapter 6 : "Anxious foot soldiers": Sacramento's black women and education in Nineteenth-century California / Susan Bragg -- Willianna Hickman's Nicodemus saga -- Homesteading on the plains : the Ava Speese Day story -- Chapter 7 : Women of the Great Falls African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870-1910 / Peggy Riley -- Kate D. Chapman describes blacks in Yankton, Dakota territory -- Black woman on the Montana frontier -- Chapter 8 : "Is there no blessing for me? : Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a Mormon African American woman / Ronald G. Coleman -- Early Twentieth century -- Chapter 9 : "Mountains were free and we loved them" : Dr. Ruth Flowers of Boulder, Colorado / Susan Armitage -- Nettie J. Asberry : African American Club woman in the Pacific Northwest -- Chapter 10 : Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the campaign for social justice in the Pacific Northwest / Quintard Taylor -- Marcus Garvey : A Seattle woman remembers -- Chapter 11 : "Try being a black woman!" : Jobs in Denver, 1900-1970 / Moya B. Hansen -- Hattie McDaniel wins an Oscar -- Chapter 12 : From Peola to Carmen : Fredi Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Hollywood's portrayal of the tragic mulatto / Alicia I. Rodriquez-Estrada -- World War II / Lyn Childs confronts a racist act -- Etta Germany writes to the President -- Chapter 13 : Women made the community : African American migrant women and the cultural transformation of the San Francisco East Bay area / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo -- Chapter 14 : "Eight dollars a day and working in the shade" : an oral history of African American migrant women in the Las Vegas Gaming industry / Claytee D. White -- Civil Rights era -- Chapter 15 : Lulu B. White and the integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 / Merline Pitre -- Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chapter 16 : Lucinda Todd and the invisible petitioners of Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas / Cheryl Brown Henderson -- Chapter 17 : Clara Luper and the Civil Rights movement In Oklahoma City, 1958-1964 / Linda Williams Reese -- Elaine Brown : Black Panther -- Chapter 18 : Black radicalism in 1960s California : women in the Black Panther Party / Jane Rhodes. |
Subject |
African American women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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African American women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
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West (U.S.) -- Race relations.
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Added Author |
Taylor, Quintard.
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Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson, 1947-
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ISBN |
0806135247 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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