Georgia of the North

HETTIE V. WILLIAMS is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. She is the former president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and has authored and edited six books and several essays, articles, and book chapters.

“Williams accurately and masterfully centers local Black women intellectuals in New Jersey as the vanguard of the long Civil Rights movement. In doing so she pushes beyond a Southern based narrative and urges us all to acknowledge and applaud these women's long underappreciated hard work.”- Cherisse Jones-Branch (author of Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World W) “Williams’s well-constructed study of five influential Black women in mid-twentieth century New Jersey will add much to understanding of the roles of African American women and Civil Rights. The Georgia of the North is a significant contribution to Black women’s intellectual history and New Jersey history.” - Graham Russell Gao Hodges (author of Black New Jersey, 1664 to the Present Day (Rutgers University Press))