Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

Name: Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race
Price: 75.98 USD
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ISBN: 9780252079597

ISBN-10: 0252079590

ISBN-13: 9780252079597

Edition: 2013

Authors: Wanda A. Hendricks

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Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English