Gender - AAIHS

The Grassroots Organizing of Black Women in the North before 1954

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Dr. Hettie V. Williams’s

For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve