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Sometimes farmgirls become revolutionaries : notes on Black power, politics, depression, and the FBI

Title
Sometimes farmgirls become revolutionaries : notes on Black power, politics, depression, and the FBI / Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones.
Author
Tate, Florence L.
Publication
  • Baltimore, Maryland : Black Classic Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Jones, Jake-Ann
  • Tate, Greg
  • Tate, Brian
Description
xviii, 299 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931-2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-the-movement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Tate defied stereotypes of the 1960s, playing key roles in the lives of an astonishing number of high-profile leaders of the most influential social-change organizations and events of the twentieth century. An accomplished activist, most people never knew that Tate was bravely fighting chronic depression. Farmgirls is an engaging collage of Tate's life, woven together from her journal entries, memories from people who knew her, and excerpts from her FBI files. These multiple perspectives bring into focus the complex and complicated saga of a public persona engaged in private struggle, defying and overcoming the odds. --- publisher's description.
Subject
  • Tate, Florence L
  • 1900-1999
  • African American women political activists > Biography
  • Women, Black > Biography
  • Civil rights movements > United States > History
  • African Americans > Civil rights > History
  • African American women political activists
  • African American women > Political activity > Biography
  • African American women civil rights workers > History > 20th century
  • African American women > Civil rights > History > 20th century
  • African American women > Civil rights
  • African American women civil rights workers
  • African American women > Political activity
  • African Americans > Civil rights
  • Civil rights movements
  • Women, Black
  • African Americans
  • African American women
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Contents
Foreword -- Seeds -- Ground -- Up North -- Stroke -- Dayton Core -- Dare and the Dayton Core News -- Stokely, SNCC, Black Power, Black Umoja Society -- Depression, COINTELPRO, Daddy dies -- DC, the Joint Center, OEO, electroconvulsive therapy -- African liberation 101 -- The continent, 6PAC, African Services Bureau, UNITA -- Marion Barry -- Jesse, Syria -- Post-Jesse, Pre-Barack -- A Luta Continua -- Afterword.
Call Number
Sc D 23-566
ISBN
  • 1574781642
  • 9781574781649
OCLC
1234476653
Author
Tate, Florence L., author.
Title
Sometimes farmgirls become revolutionaries : notes on Black power, politics, depression, and the FBI / Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones.
Publisher
Baltimore, Maryland : Black Classic Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Jones, Jake-Ann, author.
Tate, Greg, author of Foreword.
Tate, Brian, author of Afterword.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-566
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