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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
By Dewart Bell, Janet
- ISBN
- 9781620976289
- Publisher
- New Pr.
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Starred Review on November 1, 2023 | Social Sciences
In folklore, singing blackbirds presage good news and joy. But the words of the 28 Black women social-justice advocates that Bell (Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement) assembles in this book express little cheer. Speaking truth to power, they convey the rude realities, undaunted courage, and prescient prescriptions of Black women, challenging the confines of sexism, racism, materialism, and classism. Organized ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
