This is a riveting narrative of determination and defiance in the face of poverty and racial injustice, and a rare, behind-the-scenes account of union organizing drives in the South, from the vantage point of a black woman. Based on twenty-three years of interviews between Mary Robinson and oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, this book reveals the intertwined effects of race, class, and gender on the lives of lower-income women during segregation and after; sheds light on African American resistance movements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling to struggles for social justice; and highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement.
Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D., has published four previous oral histories, including La Partera: Story of a Midwife; Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles; and Forged Under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas.
A volume in the series Class : Culture.
This is a riveting narrative of determination and defiance in the face of poverty and racial injustice, and a rare, behind-the-scenes account of union organizing drives in the South, from the vantage point of a black woman. Based on twenty-three years of interviews between Mary Robinson and oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, this book reveals the intertwined effects of race, class, and gender on the lives of lower-income women during segregation and after; sheds light on African American resistance movements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling to struggles for social justice; and highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement.
Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D., has published four previous oral histories, including La Partera: Story of a Midwife; Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles; and Forged Under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas.
A volume in the series Class : Culture.

Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
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ISBN-13: | 9780472065875 |
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Publisher: | University of Michigan Press |
Publication date: | 04/29/2009 |
Series: | Class : Culture |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |