Rebecca Tuuri: 2 books
Strategic Sisterhood
The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings....
U.S. Women's History
Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman...