New Woman of Color

The Collected Writings of Fannie Barrier Williams, 1893–1918

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Fannie Barrier Williams made history as a controversial African American reformer in an era fraught with racial discrimination and injustice. She first came to prominence during the 1893 Columbian Exposition, where her powerful arguments for African American women's rights launched her career as a nationally renowned writer and orator. In her speeches, essays, and articles, Williams incorporated the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois to create an interracial worldview dedicated to social equality and cultural harmony. Williams's writings illuminate the difficulties of African American women in the Progressive Era. She frankly denounced white men's sexual and economic victimization of black women and condemned the complicity of religious and political leaders in the immorality of segregation. Citing the discrimination that crushed the spirits of African American women, Williams called for educational and professional progress for African Americans through the transformation of white society. Committed to aiding and educating Chicago's urban poor, Williams played a central and continuous role in the development of the Frederick Douglass Center, which she called "the black Hull House." An active member of the NAACP and the National Urban League, she fought a long and successful battle to become the first African American admitted to the influential Chicago Women's Club. Her efforts to promote the well-being of African American women brought her into close contact with such influential women as Celia Parker Woolley, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Accompanied by Deegan's introduction and detailed annotations, Williams's perceptive writings on race relations, women's rights, economic justice, and the role of African American women are as fresh and fascinating today as when they were written.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-07-23
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780875802930

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Table of ContentsEditor's Preface Introduction: "Fannie Barrier Williams and Her Life as a New Woman of Color, 1893-1918" by Mary Jo Deegan Part I: Autobiography 1. A Northern Negro's Autobiography Part II: African American Women 2. The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation 3. Club Movement among Negro Women 4. The Club Movement among the Colored Women 5. The Proglem of Employment for Negro Women 6. The Woman's Part in a Man's Business 7. The Colored Girl 8. Colored Women of Chicago Part III: African Americans 9. Religious Duty to the Negro 10. Industrial Education-Will It Solve the Negro Problem? 11. Do We Need Another Name? 12. The Negro and Public Opinion 13. The Smaller Economies 14. An Extension of the Conference Spirit 15. Vacation Values 16. Refining Influence of Art Part IV: Social Settlements 17. The Need of Social Settlement Work for the City Negro 18. The Frederick Douglass Centre: A Question of Social Betterment and Not of Social Equality 19. Social Bonds in the "Black Belt" of Chicago: Negro Organizations and the New Spirit Pervading Them 20. The Frederick Douglass Center[: The Institutional Foundation] 21. A New Method of Dealing with the Race Problem Part V: Eulogies 22. [In Memory of Philip D. Armour] 23. [Eulogoy of Susan B. Anthongy] 24. Report of Memorial Service for Rev. Celia Parker Woolley Notes References Index