Trailblazers: black women who helped make America great : American firsts/American icons Volume 1 Activism, dance, sports

"Volume 1 features an assortment of seventy activists, dancers, and athletes. We learn about the significance of activists like Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosina Correothers Tucker, and Clara Day, who represent the hundreds of unnamed women who participated in the civil rights and labor movement...

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1. Verfasser: David, Gabrielle (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Feng, Carolina Fung (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York 2Leaf Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:African American studies
Women's studies
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Zusammenfassung:"Volume 1 features an assortment of seventy activists, dancers, and athletes. We learn about the significance of activists like Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosina Correothers Tucker, and Clara Day, who represent the hundreds of unnamed women who participated in the civil rights and labor movements, and the women who are following their path, like Peggy Shepard, Michelle Alexander, Glynda C. Carr, Leah Penniman, and LaSaia Wade. We re-discover dancers Jeni Legon and Margot Webb, who are honored alongside dance legends Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham, Janet Collins, and a newer generation of dancers including Cynthia Oliver, Dormeshia, Camille A. Brown, and Misty Copeland. And then there are the Black women athletes who disrupted the world of sports, including the nearly forgotten tennis champion Ora Washington, and Alice Coachman, the first to compete and win in the Olympics, to Olympic medalist firsts like Debi Thomas, Maritza Correia McClendon, and Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history. Throughout the series, as David re-introduces many of these women into the public sphere, they are not always in predictable ways. For example, Debbie Allen makes a brief appearance in this volume, not for her acting or as a director, but rather as the dancer she initially trained to be, reminding us that Black women are multifaceted, multitalented, and complex. What binds these women together is that as they struggled on the front lines, they also challenged and shook-up the status quo of Black people and women in America [...]."
Beschreibung:xxxix, 683 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781940939797

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