What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era

Name: What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era
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ISBN: 9780226751207

ISBN-10: 0226751201

ISBN-13: 9780226751207

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephanie J. Shaw

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Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



What a Woman Ought to Be



"Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies



"The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness



"We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements Epilogue to Part 1



What a Woman Ought to Do Prologue to Part 2



"I am teaching school here . . . [but] I find it rather hard . . . with my housekeeping": Private sphere work



"It was time . . . that we should be members": Personal professional work



"Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman.": Public sphere work


Conclusion


Appendix: Biographical


sketches


Abbreviations and Sources


Notes


Index