05029nam 2200733 a 450 991096366280332120200520144314.097808262640460826264042(CKB)1000000000005012(OCoLC)608991210(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048218(SSID)ssj0000198459(PQKBManifestationID)11179109(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198459(PQKBWorkID)10184148(PQKB)10206684(MiAaPQ)EBC3570755(OCoLC)1080551563(MdBmJHUP)muse66973(Au-PeEL)EBL3570755(CaPaEBR)ebr10048218(OCoLC)56424966(Perlego)1704349(EXLCZ)99100000000000501220021113d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism /Joyce A. Hanson1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20031 online resource (262 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780826214515 0826214517 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of a Race Woman -- 2. Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls -- 3. Mutual Aid, Self-Improvement, and Social Justice -- 4. In the National Youth Administration -- 5. The National Council of Negro Women -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women's leadership for group advancement. Despite her accomplishments, the means, techniques, and actions Bethune employed in fighting for equality have been widely misinterpreted. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding this important political figure. Joyce A. Hanson shows that the choices Bethune made often appear contradictory, unless one understands that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth. Bethune, who lived from 1875 to 1955, struggled to reconcile her nineteenth-century notions of women's moral superiority with the changing political realities of the twentieth century. She used two conceptually distinct levels of activism-one nonconfrontational and designed to slowly undermine systemic racism, the other openly confrontational and designed to challenge the most overt discrimination-in her efforts to achieve equality.   Hanson uses a wide range of never- or little-used primary sources and adds a significant dimension to the historical discussion of black women's organizations by such scholars as Elsa Barkley Brown, Sharon Harley, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. The book extends the current debate about black women's political activism in recent work by Stephanie Shaw, Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham, and Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Examining the historical evolution of African American women's activism in the critical period between 1920 and 1950, a time previously characterized as "doldrums" for both feminist and civil rights activity, Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism is important for understanding the centrality of black women to the political fight for social, economic, and racial justice. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black women's political activismAfrican American women political activistsBiographyAfrican American women educatorsBiographyJuvenile literatureAfrican American women social reformersBiographyJuvenile literatureAfrican American womenPolitical activityHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansPolitics and government20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryAfrican American women political activistsAfrican American women educatorsAfrican American women social reformersAfrican American womenPolitical activityHistoryAfrican AmericansPolitics and governmentAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory370/.92BHanson Joyce Ann1809930MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963662803321Mary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism4360969UNINA