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Genre/Form: | Oral history Biography Biographies Oral histories Anecdotes History Interviews Biography Anecdotes |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anne M Valk; Leslie Brown |
ISBN: | 9780230619623 0230619622 9780230621527 023062152X |
OCLC Number: | 437300339 |
Description: | xiii, 209 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | The foundation was there: growing up a girl in the Jim Crow South -- What is expected of you: gender and sexuality -- You are all under bondage, which is true: working lives -- a society totally our own: institutional and cultural life -- I like to get something done: fighting for social and political change. |
Series Title: | Palgrave studies in oral history. |
Responsibility: | Anne Valk and Leslie Brown. |
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Abstract:
Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.
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"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE
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- African American women -- Southern States -- Interviews.
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Sexism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Interviews -- Southern States.
- Oral history.
- African American women.
- African Americans -- Segregation.
- African Americans -- Social conditions.
- Interviews.
- Race relations.
- Racism.
- Sexism.
- Social conditions
- Southern States.
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