ISBN:
9780820366418
,
0820366412
,
9780820366425
,
0820366420
Language:
English
Pages:
277 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seniors, Paula Marie Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and world revolutions
DDC:
305.488960730922
Keywords:
African American women civil rights workers / Biography
;
African American radicals / Biography
;
Black nationalism / United States / History / 20th century
;
Workers World Party
;
Communism / United States / History / 20th century
;
United States / Race relations / History / 20th century
;
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines / Biographies
;
Radicaux noirs américains / Biographies
;
Nationalisme noir / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
Communisme / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
États-Unis / Relations raciales / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
African American radicals
;
African American women civil rights workers
;
Black nationalism
;
Communism
;
Race relations
;
United States
;
1900-1999
;
Biographies
;
History
Abstract:
"This book explores the significant contributions of African American women radical activists from 1955 to 1995. It examines the 1961 case of African American working-class self-defense advocate Mae Mallory, who traveled from New York to Monroe, North Carolina, to provide support and weapons to the Negroes with Guns Movement. Accused of kidnapping a Ku Klux Klan couple, she spent thirteen months in a Cleveland jail, facing extradition. African American women radical activists Ethel Azalea Johnson of Negroes with Guns, Audrey Proctor Seniors of the banned New Orleans NAACP, the Trotskyist Workers World Party, Ruthie Stone, and Clarence Henry Seniors of Workers World founded the Monroe Defense Committee to support Mallory. Mae's daughter, Pat, aged sixteen also participated, and they all bonded as family. When the case ended, they joined the Tanzanian, Grenadian, and Nicaraguan World Revolutions.
Abstract:
Using her unique vantage point as Audrey Proctor Seniors's daughter, Paula Marie Seniors blends personal accounts with theoretical frameworks of organic intellectual, community feminism, and several other theoretical frameworks in analyzing African American radical women's activism in this era. Essential biographical and character narratives are combined with an analysis of the social and political movements of the era and their historical significance. Seniors examines the link between Mallory, Johnson, and Proctor Seniors's radical activism and their connections to national and international leftist human rights movements and organizations. She asks the underlying question: Why did these women choose radical activism and align themselves with revolutionary governments, linking Black human rights to world revolutions? Seniors's historical and personal account of the era aims to recover Black women radical activists' place in history.
Abstract:
Her innovative research and compelling storytelling broaden our knowledge of these activists and their political movements"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Mrs. Ethel Azalea Johnson : motherhood, self-defense, and the Negroes with Guns Movement -- Ethel Azalea Johnson : Mrs. Johnson and world revolutions -- Mae Mallory : from Georgia to New York, to political prisoner -- Audrey Proctor : the New Orleans NAACP and the Monroe Defense Committee -- Patricia Mallory : awakenings of a Black Nationalist rebel girl -- Mae Mallory : dream escape at Twenty-First and Payne/"Pain" -- Audrey Proctor Seniors : motherhood and writing resistance -- Pat Mallory, Black Nationalist rebel woman : social political awakening in Tanzania and Guyana -- Audrey Proctor Seniors : the Grenadian and Nicaraguan revolutions -- Radicalized daughters speak / Pat Mallory Oduba
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