Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History

by Rodger Streitmatter

Overview

Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813108308
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	02/24/1994
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

An historical chronology of eleven interesting and determined black female journalists.

Washington Times

Little research exists on African-American women journalists, even in studies of the black press. To address this gap, Streitmatter presents eleven biographies of journalists from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Journal of Women's History

"Little research exists on African-American women journalists, even in studies of the black press. To address this gap, Streitmatter presents eleven biographies of journalists from the early nineteenth century to the present." — Journal of Women's History

"[Streitmatter] finds that their attraction to journalism cam from their desire to be advocates of racial reform, that they were courageous in the face of sexism and financial discrimination, and that they used education as their entry into journalism and subsequently received support from African-American male editors." — Journal of Women's History

"An historical chronology of eleven interesting and determined black female journalists." — Washington Times

From the Publisher

Biographical sketches of 11 black women who have written for American newspaper or television news, from Maria W. Stewart who aided the abolition movement in the 1830s to Charlayne Hunter- Gault, an award-winning reporter for the New York Times and the "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour." Relies heavily on the women's own words, from articles, interviews, and personal papers. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews