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Nannie Helen Burroughs : A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959 /
"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narratives of those e...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "God Will Give Us Credit for Trying:" Toward an Intellectual History of Nannie Helen Burroughs; PART ONE. Things of the Spirit: Religious Thought; Reflections on Baptist Theology, the Bible, and Paganism; What Baptists Believe; What the Bible Is and What It Does for the Human Race; Woman's Day; Are You a Colored Baptist?; The Role of the Church in Society; Exporting Christianity and Cultivating Race Prejudice; How to Hitch Your Old Time Religion to New Conditions
- The Church Began in the HomeDefinite Work That Uplifters Should Do; Human Waste and Human Responsibility; PART TWO. The Way Up and Out: Social, Political, and Race-Centered Thought; On Black Womanhood, Suffrage, and the Nobility of Labor; How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping; The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem; Not Color but Character; Black Women and Reform; Miss Burroughs Plans a "New Deal" to Conserve Girlhood of the Race; Negro Women Must Make Future Brighter, or Continue an Economic, Social Slave; Negro Women and Their Homes
- The Negro Woman Is a Mighty Big WomanUplift, Patriotism, Respectability, and Education; Industrial Education-Will It Solve the Negro Problem?; The Negro Home; With All Thy Getting; From a Woman's Point of View; Manhood, Patriotism, Religion, Going Out of Style among Negroes; Bathing Is a Personal Right; Smelling Is a Public Offense; How Does It Feel to Be a Negro?; "Must Uplift the Masses"; The Only Way to Victory; Up from the Depths; Group Politics, Leadership, and Race Work; Go Down Town and Meet Him; Why Our Dispositions Are "Most Nigh Ruint."
- Nearly All the Educated Negroes Are Looking for Ready-Made JobsGet Ready-Winter Is Coming, Says Educator; Leaders Idle; Educated Parasites and Satisfied Mendicants; Writer Asks How Dems Election Will Affect Negro; Unload the Leeches and Parasitic "Toms" and Take the Promised Land; Twelve Things the Negro Must Do for Himself; Racial Violence, Social Justice, Politics, and Democracy; Miss Burroughs Replies to Mr. Carrington; Divide Vote or Go to Socialists; What Is Social Equality?; Legitimate Ambitions of the Negro; Why America Has Gone Lynch Mad; Race Attitude
- The Challenge of the New Day: Commencement Address, May 24, 1934Ballot and Dollar Needed to Make Progress, Not Pity; Declaration of 1776 Is Cause of the Harlem Riot; This Is the War of the Five Rs: Race, Room, Raw Materials, Rights, Religion; Education and Justice; Put the Leaven in the Lump; Second Class Citizens; Slavery Was a Success; The Meaning of Cooperation; Brotherhood and Democracy; The Only Way to World Peace; The Path to Real Justice; The Hope of the World; Equality of Opportunity Is the Eternal Goal; We Must Fight Back, but with What and How?