Research Catalog

Title

Fannie Barrier Williams : crossing the borders of region and race / Wanda A. Hendricks.

Author

Hendricks, Wanda A.

Publication

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

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Description

xii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In this first biography of Williams, Wanda A. Hendricks focuses on the critical role geography and social position played in Williams's life, illustrating how the reform activism of Williams and other black women was bound up with place and space. ... By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America."--Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Williams, Fannie Barrier
• African American women political activists > Biography
• African American women social reformers > Biography
• African American women > Brockport > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

North of slavery : Brockport -- "Completely surrounded by screens" : a raced identity -- Creating community in the Midwest : Chicago -- Crossing the border of race : the Unitarians, the World's Fair, and the Chicago Woman's Club -- A distinctive generation : "The colored woman's era" -- The new century : North and South meet -- A new era : duty, responsibility, and tension -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780252038112
• 0252038118
• 9780252079597
• 0252079590

OCLC

• 843858200
• SCSB-12285708

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library