African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000

by Taylor, Quintard

• ISBN13: 9780806139791
• ISBN10: 080613979X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-31
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Reconstructs the history of black women's participation in western settlement

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction
The West of African American Women, 1600-2000	p. 3
African American Women in Western History: Past and Prospect	p. 22
The Spanish-Mexican Period
Isabel De Olvera Arrives in New Mexico	p. 31
To Be Black and Female in the Spanish Southwest: Toward a History of African Women on New Spain's Far Northern Frontier	p. 32
The Antebellum West
A Texas Slave's Letter to Her Husband, 1862	p. 55
Mining a Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant	p. 56
A Voice from the Oppressed to the Friends of Humanity	p. 71
Rights of Passage: Gendered-Rights Consciousness and the Quest for Freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870	p. 73
The Post-Civil War Era
"Anxious Foot Soldiers": Sacramento's Black Women and Education in Nineteenth-Century California	p. 97
Willianna Hickman's Nicodemus Saga	p. 117
Homesteading on the Plains: The Ava Speese Day Story	p. 119
Women of the Great Falls African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870-1910	p. 122
Kate D. Chapman Describes Blacks in Yankton, Dakota Territory	p. 140
A Black Woman on the Montana Frontier	p. 142
"Is There No Blessing for Me?": Jane Elizabeth Manning James, A Mormon African American Woman	p. 144
The Early Twentieth Century
"The Mountains Were Free and We Loved Them": Dr. Ruth Flowers of Boulder, Colorado	p. 165
Nettie J. Asberry: African American Club Woman in the Pacific Northwest	p. 178
Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the Campaign for Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest	p. 189
Marcus Garvey: A Seattle Woman Remembers	p. 205
"Try Being a Black Woman!": Jobs in Denver, 1900-1970	p. 207
Hattie McDaniel Wins an Oscar	p. 228
From Peola to Carmen: Fredi Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Hollywood's Portrayal of the Tragic Mulatto	p. 230
World War II
Lyn Childs Confronts a Racist Act	p. 251
Etta Germany Writes to the President	p. 253
"Women Made the Community": African American Migrant Women and the Cultural Transformation of the San Francisco East Bay Area	p. 254
"Eight Dollars a Day and Working in the Shade": An Oral History of African American Migrant Women in the Las Vegas Gaming Industry	p. 276
The Civil Rights Era
Lulu B. White and the Integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950	p. 293
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and the U.S. Supreme Court	p. 309
Lucinda Todd and the Invisible Petitioners of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	p. 312
Clara Luper and the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma City, 1958-1964	p. 328
Elaine Brown: Black Panther	p. 344
Black Radicalism in 1960s California: Women in the Black Panther Party	p. 346
Selected Bibliography	p. 363
List of Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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