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Continually working : Black women, community intellectualism and economic justice in postwar Milwaukee / Crystal Marie Moten.

Author/creator Moten, Crystal, 1982- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Washington, DC : Smithsonian National Museum of American History ; Nashville, Tennessee : in association with Vanderbilt University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice ©2023
Descriptionxix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Black lives & liberation
Black lives and liberation. ^A1427626
Contents Introduction -- "More Than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association -- "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s -- Working toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era -- "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee -- "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Job System in a Post-Civil Rights Era -- Epilogue.
Abstract "Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the 1940s to the 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-223) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Moten, Crystal, 1982- Continually working Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, [2023] 9780826505590
Genre/formHistory
LCCN 2022053775
ISBN9780826505583 hardcover
ISBN0826505589 hardcover

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