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Black Texas Women : 150 Years of Trial and Triumph / Ruthe Winegarten; ed. by Janet G. Humphrey, Frieda Werden.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292768017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48/960730764 20
LOC classification:
  • E185.93.T4
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- "She Is My Sister" by Niobe -- PART I The Antebellum Period -- 1. Free Women of Color -- 2 Slavery -- PART II Reconstruction and Redemption -- 3 First Freedom -- 4 Resistance -- PART III Education and Culture -- 5 Freedmen's Bureau Schools and Public Schools -- 6 Higher Education -- 7 Culture and Social Life -- PART IV The New Century -- 8 Work -- 9 Clubs and Community Building -- 10 The Fight for Suffrage and against Lynching -- PART V The Modern Period -- 11 World War II -- 12 The Civil Rights Movement -- 13 Breaking the Glass Ceiling -- "Prelude to Ashe" by Hermine Pinson -- Appendix 1 Educators -- Appendix 2 Officeholders -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Index
Summary: Women of all colors have shaped families, communities, institutions, and societies throughout history, but only in recent decades have their contributions been widely recognized, described, and celebrated. This book presents the first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood. Beginning with slave and free women of color during the Texas colonial period and concluding with contemporary women who serve in the Texas legislature and the United States Congress, Ruthe Winegarten organizes her history both chronologically and topically. Her narrative sparkles with the life stories of individual women and their contributions to the work force, education, religion, the club movement, community building, politics, civil rights, and culture. The product of extensive archival and oral research and illustrated with over 200 photographs, this groundbreaking work will be equally appealing to general readers and to scholars of women's history, black history, American studies, and Texas history.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- "She Is My Sister" by Niobe -- PART I The Antebellum Period -- 1. Free Women of Color -- 2 Slavery -- PART II Reconstruction and Redemption -- 3 First Freedom -- 4 Resistance -- PART III Education and Culture -- 5 Freedmen's Bureau Schools and Public Schools -- 6 Higher Education -- 7 Culture and Social Life -- PART IV The New Century -- 8 Work -- 9 Clubs and Community Building -- 10 The Fight for Suffrage and against Lynching -- PART V The Modern Period -- 11 World War II -- 12 The Civil Rights Movement -- 13 Breaking the Glass Ceiling -- "Prelude to Ashe" by Hermine Pinson -- Appendix 1 Educators -- Appendix 2 Officeholders -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Index

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Women of all colors have shaped families, communities, institutions, and societies throughout history, but only in recent decades have their contributions been widely recognized, described, and celebrated. This book presents the first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood. Beginning with slave and free women of color during the Texas colonial period and concluding with contemporary women who serve in the Texas legislature and the United States Congress, Ruthe Winegarten organizes her history both chronologically and topically. Her narrative sparkles with the life stories of individual women and their contributions to the work force, education, religion, the club movement, community building, politics, civil rights, and culture. The product of extensive archival and oral research and illustrated with over 200 photographs, this groundbreaking work will be equally appealing to general readers and to scholars of women's history, black history, American studies, and Texas history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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