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Before They Had Bootstraps: A Case Study of Intergenerational Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1880 – 1944
Examines the everyday activism and achievements of four generations of Black Arkansas women to cultivate and embrace homemade citizenship in their words and deeds while facing white aggression within the historical context of slavery, reconstruction, Black Codes, and Jim Crow. Continue reading
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Tagged activism, African Americans, Arkansas, citizenship, history, RWSA conference, slavery
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reFraming: Dramatic Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama’s Black Belt
How did an entire Black community manage to keep land during Reconstruction and in the Jim Crow South? Continue reading
Asenath’s Fiery Pen
Instead of retreating to their parlors and bemoaning their plight, women in Territorial Kansas advocated for themselves and their families in the face of loss. Continue reading
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Tagged historical reenactment, history, Kansas, migration, politics, Public History, slavery, violence
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part IV
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
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Tagged African diaspora, conferences, farm labor, history, land ownership, slavery
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History Matters: Reflections on the Historians Against Slavery Conference
To truly put history to work . . . it should also involve engaging and collaborating with change makers outside of the academy and on the ground. Continue reading
New Issue of AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Highlights Rural Women’s Studies
Essays based on superb papers presented at the 2012 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference, which span time and place, appear along with an introduction in the Summer 2015 issue of Agricultural History. Continue reading
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Tagged activism, family, farm labor, girlhood, history, migration, RWSA, RWSA conference, slavery, social reform
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