Raising her voice : African-American women journalists who changed history /
Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A....
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Lexington, KY :
University Press of Kentucky
1994.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130jn0r |
Table of Contents:
- Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching
- Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement
- Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation
- Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance
- Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement
- Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow
- Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle.