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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “danielle phillips cunningham”
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  • Nannie Helen Burroughs

    A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

    by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham ...
    Finalist, 2026 Leticia Woods Brown Book Prize - Association of Black Women HistoriansThe story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonateAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and sharecropping—which were the least regulated and lowest paying occupations for ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Putting Their Hands on Race

    Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers

    by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham ...
    Winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies AssociationPutting Their Hands on Race offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this intersectional study explores how these women were significant to the racial labor and citizenship politics ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship

    Leading a Texas City's Desegregation

    by Annetta Ramsay ...
    Series series Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership, Texas Woman's University
    In 1964, the task of racial desegregation of public schools hung over the country. In Denton, North Texas town, a remarkable alliance transcended racial divides, ignited a city-wide grassroots civil rights movement. Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship: Leading a Texas City’s Desegregation by Annetta Ramsay is a vital historical account chronicling the extraordinary journey of courageous Black ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.“With heartfelt prose and unyielding honesty, Baker explores the depths of her roots and invites readers to reflect on our own.”—Donovan X. Ramsey, ... Read more

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  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

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  • Young and Restless

    The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

    by Mattie Kahn ...
    **NPR's Books We Love 2023Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"*Vogue's "*Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"*Town & Country's "*The Best Books of 2023"A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls**Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus ... Read more

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  • Black Broadway in Washington, D.C.

    by Briana A Thomas ...
    A history of the African American neighborhood and its remarkable residents in our nation's capital.Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses ... Read more

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  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

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  • An Unseen Light

    Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

    by Aram Goudsouzian, Charles W. McKinney ...
    Series series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    Scholars examine the activist efforts of Black Americans in Memphis in a series of essays ranging from the Reconstruction era to the twenty-first century.In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African American activism in Memphis from the dawn of emancipation to the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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  • Unprotected Labor

    Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940

    by Vanessa H. May ...
    Through an analysis of women’s reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, ... Read more

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  • Inspiring African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement:

    18Th, 19Th, and 20Th Centuries

    by La Shawn B. Kelley ...
    The Civil Rights Movement is a milestone in American history that can help us think more clearly about today's movement for social and political change, which can sometimes be influenced or misguided by the media. We all must seize the opportunity to shape our own post-civil rights era and redefine what civil rights means to us today and in the future. Inspiring African-American Women of the Civil ... Read more

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  • I'll Find a Way or Make One

    A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    by Dwayne Ashley, Juan Williams ...
    "Filled with history and anecdote . . . a walk through the past and a peek at the future of America through the gift of HBCUs and their graduates." — Publishers WeeklyA comprehensive and definitive guide to America's 107 historically black colleges and universities, this commemorative gift book explores the historical, social, and cultural importance of the nation's HBCUs and celebrates their rich ... Read more

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