Black women and politics in New York City /

In this project Julie Gallaher documents a generation of black women who came to politics during the 1940s in New York City. Ada B. Jackson, Pauli Murray, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Bessie Buchanan, Jeanne Noble and Shirley Chisholm, among others, worked, studied and lived in Harlem and Brooklyn. They se...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Julie A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Series:Women in American history.
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