When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America - A History of the Struggle for Suffrage and Civil Rights

ISBN: 0688146503

Author: Giddings, Paula J.

Condition: New

History at its best-clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject-Toni MorrisonAcclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Giddingss When and Where I Enter is not only an eloquent testament to the unsung contributions of individual women to our nation, but to the collective activism which elevated the race and womens movements that define our times. From Ida B. Wells to the first black Presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm; from the anti-lynching movement to the struggle for suffrage and equal protection under the law; Giddings tells the stories of black women who transcended the dual discrimination of race and gender-and whose legacy inspires our own generation. Forty years after the passing of the Voting Rights Act, when phrases like affirmative action and wrongful imprisonment are rallying cries, Giddings words resonate now more than ever.