Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds

This landmark collection reclaims the legacy of the pioneering thought and action of nineteenth-century black American women. It chronicles the activism of lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells. The distinguished contributors include Hazel V. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen Baker-Fletcher, R. Dianne Bartlow, Olga Idri...