Black women activists

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

2. A Groundbreaking Journalist

3. Burned Alive

Chapter 2. Winnie Mandela

1. Winnie Mandela's Troubled Life

2. The Soweto Uprising

3. An Interview with Winnie Mandela

Chapter 3. Other Nineteenth-Century Trailblazers

1. Maria Stewart

2. Slavery and Degradation

3. Sojourner Truth

4. Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Chapter 4. Black Women and the Fight Against Racial Segregation

1. Mary Church Terrell

2. Mary McLeond Bethune

3. Doors Closed to Black Americans

4. Rosa Parks

Chapter 5. Voting Rights, Women's Rights, and Speaking for the Voiceless

1. Fannie Lou Hamer

2. A Life Shaped by Mentors: Marian Wright Edelman

3. Maxine Waters

Appendix of Documents

For Further Research

Index