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Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

Hendricks, Wanda A.

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Series: New Black Studies

Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0252079590
ISBN13: 9780252079597
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Dec 12 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became raced for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.

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