Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

Keisha N. Blain

255 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black wo...

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