Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by
Keisha N. Blain
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late...