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"Through wide-ranging conversations with nine African American women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices"--
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Interviews include:Leah Chase - New Orleans
June Jackson Christmas - New York City
Alleen Hernandez (deceased)
Diane Nash - Chicago
Judy Richardson
Kathleen Cleaver - Atlanta
Gay McDougall - New York City
Gloria Richardson - New York City
Myrlie Evers - Pomona, California
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Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch University. She founded the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society series at the New York University School of Law and is the author of
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement and
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century and the co-editor (with Vincent M. Southerland) of
Carving Out a Humanity and
Race, Rights, and Redemption (all published by The New Press). An award-winning television and radio producer, she lives in New York City.
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that demonstrate the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights
