Crystal Marie Moten is a public historian, curator, and writer who focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender to uncover the hidden histories of Black people in the Midwest.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights EraEpilogueBibliographyNotesIndex

Continually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism."—Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis"In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle."—LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy

Crystal Marie Moten is a public historian, curator, and writer who focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender to uncover the hidden histories of Black people in the Midwest.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights EraEpilogueBibliographyNotesIndex

Continually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism."—Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis"In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle."—LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy

Crystal Marie Moten is a public historian, curator, and writer who focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender to uncover the hidden histories of Black people in the Midwest.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights EraEpilogueBibliographyNotesIndex

Continually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism."—Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis"In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle."—LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy