Black Women’s Work and Leisure in the Black Mecca
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.
Eshe Sherley is a historian of Black politics, gender, sexuality, and labor in the 20th century United States. Before joining the African American Studies faculty at Wake Forest, Eshe was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at UVA. Dr. Sherley received a B.A. in African American Studies from Yale University and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan with a concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies. Sherley is working on a monograph tentatively titled Fighting for Life: How Black Women Transformed the Politics of Labor and Reproduction in Atlanta, 1968-1985. Fighting for Life tells the story of how a network of Black women activists became key political players in Atlanta and challenged both white and Black political leadership in the city. Her work has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, NC.
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.
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