{"product_id":"black-women-in-white-america-isbn-9780679743149","title":"Black Women in White America","description":"Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this “stunning collection of documents” (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this, the United States,”—Nathan Irvin Huggins\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves,”—Maya Angelou\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Sources\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction, by Mary McLeod Bethune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. SLAVERY\u003cbr\u003ePurchase and Sale\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBill of Sale of Abraham Van Vleeck (1811)\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Blankenship Wishes to Buy a Slave Girl (1863)\u003cbr\u003eMoses Grandy's Wife Is Sold (1844)\u003cbr\u003eA Slave Dealer's Sale Receipts (1863)\u003cbr\u003eA Mother Is Sold Away from Her Children \u003cbr\u003eA Slave Mother Succees in Returning to Her Family (1846)\u003cbr\u003eA Slave Shams Illness to Stay with Her Husband (1847)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTell It Like It Was\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDaily Life of Plantation Slaves\u003cbr\u003eThe Slaves' Garden Plot (1836)\u003cbr\u003eA House Slave's Family Life (1861)\u003cbr\u003eA Seamstress Is Punished (1839)\u003cbr\u003eThe Daily Life of House Slaves (1839)\u003cbr\u003eI Wasn't Crying 'Bout Mistress, I Was Crying 'Cause the White Bread \u003cbr\u003e     Was Gone, Martha Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Struggle for Survival—Day-to-Day Resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSneaking an Education:  Memories of a Contraband, Susie King Taylor\u003cbr\u003eFoolin' Massa: Memories of a Contraband\u003cbr\u003eShe Finally Went to School That One Night, Josephine Thomas White\u003cbr\u003eA Slave Woman Runs a Midnight School, Milla Granson\u003cbr\u003eA Slave Mother in Business\u003cbr\u003eFight, and If You Can't Fight, Kick\u003cbr\u003eA Mother Purchases Her Daughter\u003cbr\u003eRansoming a Woman from Slavery (1859)\u003cbr\u003eStephen and Juba (1838–1839)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Woman's Fate\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Way Women Are Treated (1839)\u003cbr\u003eThe “Breeder Woman” \u003cbr\u003eThe Nursing Mothers (1836)\u003cbr\u003eA Slaveholder's Wife Listens to Her Slaves (1838–1839)\u003cbr\u003eThe Slaveholder's Mistress\u003cbr\u003eA Slaveholder Confides to Her Diary\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Nancy Weston as Told by Her Son (1868)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the Road to Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Rescue of Jane Johnson (1855)\u003cbr\u003eDramatic Slave Rescues (1855, 1857)\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Margaret Garener (1856)\u003cbr\u003eThe Called Her “Moses,” Harriet Tubman (1860)\u003cbr\u003eAn Ingenious Escape, Ellen Craft (1848)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATION\u003cbr\u003eLearning to Teach\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTeaching School to Keep Alive, Maria W. Stewart (1832)\u003cbr\u003eEstablishing a Girls' Department in the Institute for Colored Youth, \u003cbr\u003e       Sarah Mapps Douglass (1853)\u003cbr\u003eTeaching to Become an Educator, Fannie Jackson Coppin (1869)\u003cbr\u003eMethods of Instruction, Fannie Jackson Coppin (1913)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeaching the Freedmen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA Teacher from the North, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1863)\u003cbr\u003eA Former Slave Teaches Black Soldiers, Susie King Taylor (1862)\u003cbr\u003eTeachers Wanted (1865)\u003cbr\u003eReports from the Field (1866–1869)\u003cbr\u003eAdministration of Freedman's Schools (1871)\u003cbr\u003eAn Example of Teaching Materials Used in Freedmen's Schools in Virginia in (1870)\u003cbr\u003eCatechizing Freedmen Children (1869)\u003cbr\u003eThey Would Not Let Us Have Schools (1871)\u003cbr\u003eSchooling in the Jim Crow South, Septima Poinsetta Clark (1916–1928)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSchool Founders\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA Progress Report from the Founder of the Haines School, Lucey Loney (1893)\u003cbr\u003eFund Raising for the Palmer Memorial Institute, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1920–1921)\u003cbr\u003eThe National Training School for Girls Appeals for Funds, Nannie Burroughs  (1929)\u003cbr\u003eA College on a Garbage Dump, Mary McLeod Bethune (1941)\u003cbr\u003eAnother “Begging” Letter, Mary McLeod Bethune (1930)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. A WOMAN'S LOT\u003cbr\u003eBlack Women are Sex Objects for White Men\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Married Life of Georgia Peons (1901)\u003cbr\u003eWe Are Little More Than Slaves (1912)\u003cbr\u003eNo Protection for Black Girls (1904)\u003cbr\u003eTheir Rage Was Chiefly Directed Against Men (1963)\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Solution (1911, 1914)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Myth of the “Bad” Black Woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Accusations Are False, Fannie Barrier Williams (1904)\u003cbr\u003eA Colored Woman, However Respectable, is Lower Than the White \u003cbr\u003e         Prostitute, Anonymous (1902)\u003cbr\u003eIn Defense of Black Women, Elsie Johnson McDougold (1925)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Rape of Black Women as a Weapon of Terror\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Memphis Riot (1865)\u003cbr\u003eKKK Terrror During Reconstruction (1871)\u003cbr\u003eDefend Black Women—And Die!\u003cbr\u003e    The Lynching of Berry Washington (1919)\u003cbr\u003e    The Case of Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and Her Sons (1947–1959)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack Women Attack the Lynching System\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLet There Be Justice, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1891)\u003cbr\u003eHow to Stop Lynching (1894)\u003cbr\u003eA Red Record, Ida B. Wells Barnett (1895)\u003cbr\u003eLynching from a Negro's Point of View, Mary Church Terrell (1904)\u003cbr\u003eThe Anti-lynching Crusaders (1923)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. MAKING A LIVING\u003cbr\u003eDoing Domestic Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eI Live a Treadmill Life, Anonymous (1912)\u003cbr\u003eSlave Markets in New York City (1940)\u003cbr\u003eThe Domestic Workers' Union (1937)\u003cbr\u003eOrganizing Domestic Workers in Atlanta, Georgia, Dorothy Bolden  (1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Service Jobs to the Factory\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAn Army Laundress at War, Susie King Taylor (1864)\u003cbr\u003eBlack Women in the Reconstruction South, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1878)\u003cbr\u003eThe Negro Woman Worker:  1860–1890, Jean Collier Brown (1931)\u003cbr\u003eThe Tobacco Workers, Emma L. Shields (1921)\u003cbr\u003eTwo Million Women at Work, Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1922)\u003cbr\u003eWomen of the Steel Towns, Mollie V. Lewis (1938)\u003cbr\u003eA Black Union Organizer, Sabina Martinez (1941)\u003cbr\u003eOrganizing at Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1947–1951)\u003cbr\u003e     Estelle Flowers\u003cbr\u003e     Luanna Cooper\u003cbr\u003e     Moranda Smith\u003cbr\u003eIt Takes a While to Realize That It Is Discrimination, Florence Rise (1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. SURVIVAL IS A FORM OF RESISTANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSomething Told Me Not to Be Afraid, Charlotte Anne Jackson (1865)\u003cbr\u003eThree Times Three Cheers for the Gunboat Boys (1863?)\u003cbr\u003eA Black Woman Remembers Her Father, Anonymous (1904)\u003cbr\u003eA Family Struggles to Keep Going, Frances A. Joseph Gaudet (1868)\u003cbr\u003eA Night Watch, Maria L. Baldwin (1863?)\u003cbr\u003eI Was a Negro Come of Age, Ellen Tarry (1955)\u003cbr\u003eWe Want to Live, Not Merely Exist, Mrs. Henry Weddington (1941)\u003cbr\u003eBlue Fork Is the Worst Place I Know, Sarah Tuck (1941)\u003cbr\u003eI Did Not Really Understand What It Meant to Be a Negro, Daisy Lee Bates (1927)\u003cbr\u003eHelping Out Daddy, Louise Meriwether (1967)\u003cbr\u003eAm I My Brother's Keeper?, Helen Howard (1965)\u003cbr\u003eHaving a Baby Inside Me Is the Only Time I'm Really Alive, Anonymous (1964)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE AND POLITICAL LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA Pioneer Newspaper Woman, Mary Ann Shadd Cory (1852)\u003cbr\u003eNurse, Spy and Scout, Harriet Tubman (1868, 1898)\u003cbr\u003eOpportunities for the Educated Colored Woman, Eva D. Bowles (1923)\u003cbr\u003eGovernment Work in World War I, Mary Church Terrell (1917–1918)\u003cbr\u003e“Election Day,” Elizabetgh Piper Ensley (1894)\u003cbr\u003eThe Negro Woman in Politics, Mrs. Robert A. Patterson  (1922)\u003cbr\u003eI Accept This Call, Charlotta Bass (1952)\u003cbr\u003eDevelopiong Community Leadership, Ella Baker (1970)\u003cbr\u003eThe 51% Minority, Shirley Chisholm (1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. THE MONSTER PREJUDICE\u003cbr\u003eIn the Grip of the Monster\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMartyr for Freedom, Amy Spain (1865)\u003cbr\u003eI Believe They Despise Us for Our Color, Sarah M. Douglass (1837)\u003cbr\u003eWhen, Oh! When Shall This Cease?, Charlotte Forten Grimké, (1855; 1899)\u003cbr\u003eFighting Jim Crow, Sojourner Truth (approx. 1966)\u003cbr\u003eSuing for Her Rights, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1921)\u003cbr\u003eThe Small Horrors of Childhood, Anonymous (1904)\u003cbr\u003eWhat It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States, \u003cbr\u003e        Mary Church Terrell (1907)\u003cbr\u003eTraveling Jim Crow, Mahalia Jackson (1966)\u003cbr\u003eThe Life and Death of Juliette Derricotte (1931)\u003cbr\u003eThere is No Prejudice in Arkansas (1936)\u003cbr\u003eDiscrimination on WPA: Black Women Appeal to FDR (1935; 1941)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFreedom—Now!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Causes of the Harlem Riot, Nannie Burroughs (1935)\u003cbr\u003eBreaking Restrictive Covenants (1948)\u003cbr\u003eThe Ordeal of Children, Daisy Bates (1962)\u003cbr\u003eAll I Could Think of Was How Sick Mississippi Whites Were, Anne Moody (1968)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. “LIFTING AS WE CLIMB”\u003cbr\u003eFrom Benevolent Societies to National Club Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)\u003cbr\u003eThe Beginnings of the National Club Movement, Josesphine St. Pierre Ruffin; \u003cbr\u003e      Margaret Murray Washington (1895)\u003cbr\u003eThe Ruffian Incident, Fannie Barrier Williams (1900)\u003cbr\u003eClub Activities, NACW Convention (1906)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterracial Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCooperation on a Community Level (1907)\u003cbr\u003eThe Colored Women's Statement (1919)\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking Up for the Race at Memphis (1920)\u003cbr\u003eHow to Stop Lynchings: A Discussion (1935)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside a White Organization—The Young Women's Christian Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEva Bowles Call for Action (1920)\u003cbr\u003eWhat the Colored Women Are Asking of the YWCA (1920)\u003cbr\u003eToo Much Paternalism in “Y's” (1920)\u003cbr\u003eReports by the Secretary For Colored Work, Eva Bowles (1922–1930)\u003cbr\u003eReminiscenceds of a YWCA Worker, Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1924–1938)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrass-Roots Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePlan of Work: Atlanta Colored Women's War Council, World War I (1918)\u003cbr\u003eThe Neighborhood Union, Atlanta, Georgia (1908–1932)\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association\u003cbr\u003eThe Poor Help Themselves: The Vine City Foundation (1968)\u003cbr\u003eOperation Daily Bread:  The National Council of Negro Women (1969)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. RACE PRIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThrow Off Your Fearfulness and Come Forth, Maria W. Stewart (1832)\u003cbr\u003eEmigration to Mexico, Anonymous (1832)\u003cbr\u003eI Belong to This Race, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1870)\u003cbr\u003eLet the Afro-American Depend but on Himself, Ida B. Wells Barnett (1892)\u003cbr\u003eThe South Is Our Home, Amanda Smith Jemand (1901)\u003cbr\u003eBlack History Builds Race Price (1933)\u003cbr\u003ePlease Stop Using the Word “Negro,” Mary Church Terrell (1882; 1922; 1938)\u003cbr\u003eGlorify Blackness, Nannie Burroughs (1949)\u003cbr\u003eThe Only Thing You Can Aspire to is Nationhood, Dara Abubakari \u003cbr\u003e       (Virginia E. Y. Collins) (1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. BLACK WOMEN SPEAK OF WOMANHOOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhat If I Am a Woman?, Maria W. Stewart (1832)\u003cbr\u003eI Suppose I Am About the Only Colored Woman That Goes About to Speak \u003cbr\u003e      for the Rights of Colored Women, Sojourner Truth (1853; 1867)\u003cbr\u003eThe Colored Woman Should Not Be Ignored, Anna J. Cooper (1892)\u003cbr\u003eThe New Black Woman, Fannie Barrier Williams (1900)\u003cbr\u003eWomen As Leaders, Amy-Jacques Garvey (1925)\u003cbr\u003eA Century of Progress of Negro Women, Mary McLeod Bethune (1933)\u003cbr\u003eThe Strength of the Negro Mother, Mahalia Jackson (1966)\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Woman Is Liberated in Her Own Mind, Dara Abubakari \u003cbr\u003e       (Virginia E. Y. Collins) (1970)\u003cbr\u003eWomen's Liberation Has a Different Meaning for Blacks, Renee Ferguson (1970)\u003cbr\u003eJim Crow and Jane Crow, Pauli Murray (1964)\u003cbr\u003ePoor Black Women, Patrcia Robinson (1970)\u003cbr\u003eFacing the Abortion Question, Shirley Chisholm (1970)\u003cbr\u003eI Want the Right to Be Black and Me, Margaret Wright (1970)\u003cbr\u003eIt's in Your Hands, Fannie Lou Hamer (1971)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliograhical Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\"Gerda Lerner has collected...material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves.\"--Maya Angelou\u003cb\u003eGerda Lerner \u003c\/b\u003e(1920–2013) was a prominent historian, activist, educator, writer, and one of the founders of the study of women's history. She received her PhD in history from Columbia University, and at her first academic post at Sarah Lawrence College, she developed the first graduate program in women's history. She went on to teach at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she created the first PhD program in women's history in the United States. Lerner is the editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Women in White America: A Documentary History\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Creation of Patriarchy\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Why History Matters: Life and Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300450062565,"sku":"NP9780679743149","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679743149.jpg?v=1767722729","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/black-women-in-white-america-isbn-9780679743149","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}