Continually Working

Continually Working

Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee

Moten, Crystal Marie

Vanderbilt University Press

03/2023

256

Mole

Inglês

9780826505576

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association
2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s
3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era
4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee
5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights Era
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index
civil rights; work; labor; midwest; justice, Black women; intellectual history; jobs; activism; Milwaukee; Young Women's Christian Association; beauty schools; equal employment; African Americans; NAACP; Urban League; Project Equality; affirmative action; Title VII; Jim Crow