It's Our Movement Now
278 pages, 6 x 9
25 b/w illus., notes, bibliography, index
Paperback
Release Date:29 Nov 2022
ISBN:9780813068817
Hardcover
Release Date:29 Nov 2022
ISBN:9780813069487
It's Our Movement Now
Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference
Edited by Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles; Photographs by Diana Mara Henry
University Press of Florida
This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference, placing the diversity of Black women’s experiences and their leadership at the center of the history of the women’s movement.
Laura L. Lovett, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism.
Rachel Jessica Daniel is director of the Center for Employee Enrichment and Development and professor of English at Massasoit Community College. Kelly N. Giles is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
