Until There is Justice : : the Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
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Prologue: a purposeful life -- A midwestern childhood -- Education: the first measure of independence -- Teaching in the segregated south -- Heading north to spread the word: the YWCA years -- Harlem and Brooklyn in the great depression -- World War II: a time for racial justice -- Fighting for fair employment, fighting for Truman -- "New world citizen": developing a national portfolio, an international consciousness, and an FBI file -- Running for office -- "A burr in the saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, white protestants, and the March on Washington -- The "double handicap of race and sex": African American women and the March on Washington -- The Commission on Religion and Race -- Moving the justice fight north -- Black power, woman power -- Refusing retirement: the Hedgeman Consultant Service -- Epilogue: fighting for heaven, right here on earth.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780190248598
0190248599
SUBJECTS
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, -- 1899-1990.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- New York -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- New York -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.