Product Description: This fresh and invigorating analysis illuminates the often-neglected story of early African American civil rights activism.• Primary source documents including the Niagara Movement's "Declaration of Principles"• A chronology of the development of the civil rights movement• Photographs of key players in the Niagara Movement• An expansive bibliography encompassing titles from sociology, political science, and histor...read more

Product Description: Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed.

Product Description: Black women have a long history of collective struggle to create welfare organizations, schools, orphanages, and health centers for African Americans. Their clubs evolved for many reasons, including self-education, community improvement, and to raise the standards of black women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)