Research Catalog

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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Details

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 activists
• African American women > Political activity
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Civil rights movements
• Women, Black
• 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.

ISBN

• 1574781642
• 9781574781649

OCLC

• on1234476653
• 1234476653
• SCSB-14525775

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library