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This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in 20th century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of black women activists in recent United States history.
List of contents
Introduction; PART I. ARKANSAS to post-WWII Los Angeles (1919-1959) 1 Arkansas and pre-WWII Los Angeles (1919-1939); 2 San Pedro Years (1939-1949); 3 The Family Years (1949-1959); PART II. TEEN POST & WAR ON POVERTY (1959-1967) 4 Y-Teen, Political Organizing & ANC Mothers (1959-1964); 5 War on Poverty, Watts Uprising & the Teen Post (1964-1967); PART III. HEALTH CARE & HIGHER EDUCATION (1967-1976) 6 Founding MLK Hospital and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (1966-1969) 7 National Health Organizing, Black Grassroots Caucus, & Youth Health Careers (1970-1974) 8 Struggle for Community Control of King-Drew (1974-1975) PART IV. CONCERNED BLACK WOMEN & DNC (1975-1989) 9 Year of the Concerned Black Woman, L.A. County Commissioner, & DNC (1975-1980) 10 No Intention of Resting: Biological and Educational Warfare (1980-1989) PART V. LEGACY, BLACK YOUTH & #BLM (1990s-Beyond) 11 Chemical and Economic Warfare, South African Apartheid (Late 1980s-1991); 12 I Won’t Complain: Arrest, Alzheimer’s, 90th Birthday, Funeral, and Legacy (1991 and Beyond); Epilogue; Appendix: Caffie Greene’s Organizational Affiliations, 1940-2010; Awards Granted to Caffie Greene; Interviews; Note on Primary Sources
About the author
Kofi-Charu Nat Turner, grandson of Caffie Greene, is an associate professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Brought up by activist parents in the San Francisco Bay Area and then by his grandma in South Central L.A., Dr. Turner first found a spiritual foundation to his activism as a student of Africana Studies studying abroad in Ghana. Today, all his work seeks to engage and support historically underserved youth, K-12 teachers, and administrators utilizing mindfulness and other embodied practices to heal the intergenerational trauma associated with white body supremacy. A community-engaged scholar and ceaseless seeker of knowledge, Dr. Turner’s research and courses span the areas of language and literacy practices of culturally and linguistically diverse urban adolescents (particularly African Americans) in school and nonschool settings, racial justice/reparations in education, hip-hop culture, and emergent technologies. He received degrees from Harvard and Brown Universities and was trained in dynamic mindfulness (DMind) at the Niroga Institute (Oakland, CA), an organization he continues to collaborate with, facilitating DMind with youth in Jersey City public schools.
Summary
This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in 20th century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of black women activists in recent United States history.
