LEADER 05029nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910963662803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780826264046 010 $a0826264042 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005012 035 $a(OCoLC)608991210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198459 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198459 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184148 035 $a(PQKB)10206684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570755 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551563 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048218 035 $a(OCoLC)56424966 035 $a(Perlego)1704349 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005012 100 $a20021113d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism /$fJoyce A. Hanson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780826214515 311 08$a0826214517 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 8 $aMary 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. 517 3 $aMary McLeod Bethune and Black women's political activism 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women educators$vBiography$vJuvenile literature 606 $aAfrican American women social reformers$vBiography$vJuvenile literature 606 $aAfrican American women$xPolitical activity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists 615 0$aAfrican American women educators 615 0$aAfrican American women social reformers 615 0$aAfrican American women$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 676 $a370/.92 676 $aB 700 $aHanson$b Joyce Ann$01809930 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963662803321 996 $aMary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism$94360969 997 $aUNINA