Delaware's African American Suffragists Part II

Anthropology News, 2020

This provides a brief summary of Black women's contributions to the Suffrage Movement that has been represented as primarily white, in the struggle for women's equality and racial equality. They did both! Citation:McClaurin, Irma. 2020. “Ten Things about Black Women Suffragists through a Black Feminist Lens.” Anthropology News website, September 14, 2020. DOI: 10.14506/AN.1495

2021

As the United States arrived at the brink of the 2020 election, three interdisciplinary scholars engaged in a panel discussion about why and how Black women of all classes have been at the forefront of movements for civil rights and economic justice. Based on their expertise on race, gender, and class, and scholarly backgrounds in history, labor studies, and political science, this paper presents perspectives on the critical role of Black women in simultaneously fighting for the right to vote, while protesting the disenfranchisement of all African Americans from the Reconstruction Era to the present. The paper discusses why and how previously marginalized groups have struggled to gain inclusion in the American political system, and how the efforts of Black women have shaped and prodded efforts to build a more democratic nation

Western New England law review, 2020

Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870, 2000

A study of the contributions and challenges faced by African American women in the Black Power Movement. Frequently sidelined by the historical record, many women made essential contributions to the movement while fighting a "double V" campaign against racism and sexism simultaneously.

Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2016

***Description of this Reading***: This is chapter six of my dissertation with only eleven pages available for preview here on Academia.edu. It chronicles the beginning of Bethune's NCNW. Readers gain a sense of her organizing principles, why she felt it was necessary to "pool" Black feminine political energy at this time, in the mid 1930s. You will also get a sense of the friction she encountered from other Black activist women--an aspect of her political career that has not been properly examined. In my narrative, archival/primary source research takes precedence. Pulling particularly from newspapers of that era lend a more complete picture of the dynamics between these particular Black women activists. ***Near Future Plans for this Chapter***: I am in the process of redeveloping this chapter to self-publish as part of a three-book series, "A Passion For Social Equality," covering Bethune's political activism during the 1930s and 1940s. POLITICAL ADVOCACY FOR JUSTICE is the title of the third book, forthcoming. POLITICAL ADVOCACY FOR JUSTICE will include an expanded narrative, interpretation, and analysis of Bethune's activism during the prewar period, from 1940-1941, and material regarding her activism during WWII. (Some of the former material has already been published in my chapter two of THE ECONOMIC CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; see http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415537360/.) ***On Book Series: "A Passion For Social Equality"*** The first book of this series has been published, entitled PUSHING THE LIMITS OF THE COLOR LINE: MARY McLEOD BETHUNE AND THE NEW DEAL. It can be viewed at: https://www.createspace.com/4283303 or the Amazon link on this page.