Series |
Black lives & liberation Black lives and liberation. ^A1427626
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-223) and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Moten, Crystal, 1982- Continually working Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, [2023] 9780826505590 |
Genre/form | History |
LCCN | 2022053775 |
ISBN | 9780826505583 hardcover |
ISBN | 0826505589 hardcover |