| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : portraits |
| Contents |
Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration -- Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching -- Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement -- Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation -- Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance -- Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement -- Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow --Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle |
| Summary |
Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-201) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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African American journalists -- Biography
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African American women -- Biography
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Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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HISTORY -- General.
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African American journalists
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African American women
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Journalism
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93035932 |
| ISBN |
9780813149059 |
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0813149053 |
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