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BLACK. o WOMEN WHITE IN AMERICA DOCUMENTARY HISTORY A EDITED GERDA LERNER BY “A stunning collection of documents by black women about themselves.” —Washin ((ton Post Book World / BOSTO^g PUBLIC library . Praise for GERDA LERNEfR'S f WOMEN BLACK WHITE AMERICA IN “A classic in the beginning expansion of Black womens story Students, feminists, Blaek peo- ple everywhere must demand that Lerners book be plaeed on library shelves of sehools, churches and bookshelves wherever. Groups ofwomen, ehildren and men should share eopies and assign eaeh other seetions for reading and rapping.” — Florynee Kennedy “Gerda Lerner. has eollected the thoughts and . . writings of this doubly jeopardized segment of America, and held them up for all to see. [It is] . . . material which can change images that whites have had ofBlaeks, and possibly even those whieh we, as Blacks, have of ourselves The sineerest recom- mendation I can give this book is to wish that I [or any one of a number of contemporary African American women authors] had written We it. . . are black women. The job was ours to do and Lerner has done it for us. At any rate the work has been written and its good and thats whats most — important.” Maya Angelou “An absolutely essential purchase. this eollec- . . tion is priceless—.” Library Journal “An outstanding and entirely original eollection of historieal sources which makes it elear that we are just at the beginning of our rediscovery of the American black experience. Soeial historians owe an enormous debt to Professor Lerner.” — Gutman Herbert Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https://archive.org/details/blackwomeninwhitOOgerd GERDA LERNER WOMEN BLACK WHITE AMERICA IN Gerda Lerner was Robinson-Edwards Professor of History and Senior Distinguished Researeh Pro- fessor at the University of Wiseonsin, Madison, A from 1981 to 1991. former President of the Orga- nization of Ameriean Historians, she the author is of eight books on Womens History, ineluding The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History, The Creation of Patriarchy, and the fortheoming What Women Thought: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness. > ' A ''^ ' i-Af. •\•,. , :''•.•-* ,: j*%' ' •,A•% ;."''K•* *>I •'*',. ^ . I , ••.“ • •• f \ ' itH Vf F' 4 n 4.:fe - r>y. .“ .7W-; ,' _. , : 'm tsamw rJ fmfy ..\ ,v iSQ.W [( << ffr?SYgP3 ’ . **vv ,yy»* . fwi*: 4}*f f, >?• jV>lir:M« . " . *' ’ ‘‘v,H V>'.' '.v' . ' 1!*''*»' • ' 'K’t* ' ' \ . ’ . . . j .11 WI^- “^liy ^•'X^ ' M•i»l) iv’ fn<^!/. yMf \2 11/>1*m1r1 '*I1 A'1 JiA>V^)' (LVv^^*V,Jfl t. -Ttl^ f'^v rii’jfii/ Mi’#(ii 'r *'(• ”A, - >UHv‘?. \VV.\\ I ; '. ' > ’t’l -.1$ n a.’At 1 - ‘ 1r ‘ ;.\1 ?i.if.f.Lt. . * i\ -'.f'.•' JLA f..vr^«V»T Fi#f ^f'T* V/ V .1 !i \f, ^ JtjOl' *^T‘ > A' ' ,•/. BLACK WOMEN WHITE IN AMERICA BLACK f MEN W O W N H T E I I AMERICA DOCUMENTARY HISTORY A EDITED GERDA LERNER BY VintageBooks • ADivision of Random House, Inc. •NewYork ' Vintage Books Edition, November 1992 © Copyright 1972 by Cerda Lemer All rights reserved under International and Pan-Ameriean Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division ofRandom House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House ofCanada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in April 1972. Crateful acknowledgment is extended to the following for permission to reprint copy- righted material, most ofwhich appears in excerpted form unless otherwise indicated: The Antioch Review: From “Daddy Was a Number Runner” by Louise Meriwether. The Antioch Review, Vol. 27, no. 3. The Christian Science Monitor: Abridgment of “Atlanta self-help,” by Robert P Hey. Copyright © 1968 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. The Dial Press: From ComingofAgein MississippibyAnne Moody. Copyright © 1968 by Anne Moody. The Dryden Press, Inc.: From The Journal of Charlotte Forten, edited by Ray Allen Billington. Copyright by The Dryden Press, Inc. E.P Dutton & Co. Inc. From Echo in My Soul by Septima Clark with LeCette Blythe. © , : Copyright 1962 by Septima Poinsetta Clark. Friendship Press, New York: From Twelve Negro Americans by Mary jenness. Copyright 1936, Friendship Press, New York. Hawthorn Books, Inc.: From Movin’ On Up by Mahalia Jackson with Evan McLeod © Wylie. Copyright 1966 by Mahalia Jackson with Evan McLeod Wylie. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.: From The Trumpet Sounds: A Memoir of Negro Leadership by Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Copyright © 1964 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Houghton Mifflin Company: From Vnbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm. © Copyright 1970 by Shirley Chisholm. Little, Brown and Company: From Children ofCrisis by Robert Coles. Copyright © 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 by Robert Coles. David McKayCompany, Inc. From TheThirdDoor: The Autobiographyofan American : Negro Woman by Ellen Tarry. Copyright © 1955 by Ellen Tarry. From The Lx>ngShadow © ofLittle Rock by Daisy Bates. Copyright 1962 by Daisy Bates. Pauli Murray: From “The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality” by Pauli Murray. © Copyright 1964 by Pauli Murray. Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Lerner, Cerda, 1920- comp. Black women in white America. Reprint ofthe 1972 ed. Includes bibliographies. — 1. Women, Negro Collections. I. Title. [FL85.86.L4 1973] 301.4F2 92-60283 ISBN 0-679-74314-6 Manufactu9red8in7the6Uni5ted4St3ates2of1America 10
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