Raising her voice : African-American women journalists who changed history

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.

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ISBN: 9780813118611
ISBN: 0813118611
ISBN: 9780813108308
ISBN: 0813108306
ISBN: 0813149053
ISBN: 9780813149059
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : portraits
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Publisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-201) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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