Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

What role did African American men have in the early twentieth-century struggle for women's suffrage? How is gender significant to the historical and contemporary struggles for African American liberation? In Womanist Forefathers, Gary L. Lemons examines the memoirs and political writings on women by Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, positioning these radical proponents of female equality as...