Caffie Greene and black women activists unsung women of the black liberation movement / Kofi Charu Nat Turner.
| Author/creator | Turner, Kofi-Charu Nat |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Arkansas and pre-WWII Los Angeles (1919-1939) -- San Pedro years (1939-1949) -- The family years (1949-1959) -- Y-teen, political organizing & ANC mothers (1959-1964) -- War on poverty, Watts uprising & the teen post (1964-1967) -- Founding MLK Hospital and Charles R. Drew Medical University (1966-1969) -- National health organizing, grassroots caucus & youth health careers (1970-1974) -- Struggle for community control of King-Drew (1974-1976) -- Year of the concerned black woman, L.A. County Commissioner & DNC (1975-1980) -- No intention of resting : biological and educational warfare (1980-1989) -- Chemical and economic warfare, South African apartheid (Late 1980's-1991) -- I won't complain : arrest, Alzheimer's, 90th birthday, funeral and legacy (1991 and beyond). |
| Abstract | "This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in 20th century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of black women activists in recent United States history. Caffie Green worked to foster the development of unions, Black elected officials and Black youth leaders within the Black Panthers, and worked with a legion of women leaders to further progress in the fields of healthcare, education, youth employment, welfare rights, public transportation, police reform and electoral politics. The book traces Greene's journey from her childhood plantation life in Arkansas; to her emergence as one of the most distinguished civil rights activists in Los Angeles history. It provides in-depth, meticulously researched archival material to amplify the voice of a pivotal woman, and analyses how her contributions impacted the movements of the postwar era. Examining the pedagogical aspects of social protest as the main resource for consciousness raising among historically marginalized youth and adults, Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists asks the essential question: What can we learn about grassroots community organizing that we do not yet know by centering a Black woman like Caffie Greene's life? What are the continuities in Greene's political work between Cold War radicalism, Black Power, and black feminism and that strict binaries like integrationist and black separatist, nationalism and socialism, and feminism and Black Power obscure? This book will be of key interest to students and scholars studying Black activist history, Black Feminism and 20th century United States history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021013621 |
| ISBN | 9781032069067 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032069197 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |