Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Negro Women in Industry
Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Negro Women in Industry
Author: Emma L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Negro Women in Industry in 15 States
Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Negro Women in Industry
Author: United States Women's BureauPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781343014565
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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Gateway to Equality
Author: Keona K. ErvinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813169879
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the "Gateway City" continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these decades, many African American citizens in the region found themselves struggling financially and fighting for access to profitable jobs and suitable working conditions. To combat ingrained racism, crippling levels of poverty, and sub-standard living conditions, black women worked together to form a community-based culture of resistance -- fighting for employment, a living wage, dignity, representation, and political leadership. Gateway to Equality investigates black working-class women's struggle for economic justice from the rise of New Deal liberalism in the 1930s to the social upheavals of the 1960s. Author Keona K. Ervin explains that the conditions in twentieth-century St. Louis were uniquely conducive to the rise of this movement since the city's economy was based on light industries that employed women, such as textiles and food processing. As part of the Great Migration, black women migrated to the city at a higher rate than their male counterparts, and labor and black freedom movements relied less on a charismatic, male leadership model. This made it possible for women to emerge as visible and influential leaders in both formal and informal capacities. In this impressive study, Ervin presents a stunning account of the ways in which black working-class women creatively fused racial and economic justice. By illustrating that their politics played an important role in defining urban political agendas, her work sheds light on an unexplored aspect of community activism and illuminates the complexities of the overlapping civil rights and labor movements during the first half of the twentieth century.
Beauty Shop Politics
Author: Tiffany M. GillPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095545
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change. From the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900 and onward, African Americans have embraced the entrepreneurial spirit by starting their own businesses, but black women's forays into the business world were overshadowed by those of black men. With a broad scope that encompasses the role of gossip in salons, ethnic beauty products, and the social meanings of African American hair textures, Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons and schools. Enhanced by lucid portrayals of black beauticians and drawing on archival research and oral histories, Beauty Shop Politics conveys the everyday operations and rich culture of black beauty salons as well as their role in building community.
Women at Work
Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Position of Negro Women
Author: Eugene GordonPublisher: New York : Workers Library Publishers
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Negro Women in the Industries of Indianapolis, Ind., 1929
Author: Young Women's Christian Association (Indianapolis). Phyllis Wheatley BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Negro Women War Workers
Author: Kathryn BloodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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