The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Black Feminism
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
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Dr. Rebecca Brückmann is an Associate Professor of History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her book, Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood, critically examines white supremacist women’s groups in 1950s and 1960s Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina and their terrorist campaigns against Black school children and parents. Her work focuses on African American history, the history of the African Diaspora, and gender history. Her current research explores the transatlantic networks of Black classical dancers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
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