Intersectional and original, Black Women Legacies explores the memorialization of African American women and its distinctive impact on physical and cultural landscapes throughout the United States.
|Acknowledgments
Introduction.
Part One. Creating Their Own World: Named Memorials of African American Women during Jim Crow
Chapter 1. The Phillis Wheatley Brand
Chapter 2. Commemorating Freedom: Named Memorials of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
Chapter 3. The Three Marys: Living Named Memorials of African American Women
Chapter 4. Claiming Public Space: The Landscape of Named Memorials
Part Two. The National, State, and Local Stages: Ushering in the Golden Age of African American Women's Memorialization
Chapter 5. Mary McLeod Bethune and a New Era of Commemoration
Chapter 6. From Murdering Voodoo Madame to the Mother of Civil Rights
Chapter 7. The Madam Walker Theatre: From Urban Life to Legacy Center
Chapter 8. The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Site: State-Funded Memorialization
Chapter 9. Celia Mann, Modjeska Simkins, and Historic Columbia: Re-imagining House Museums in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
|"I was fully captivated by this story about women's efforts to tell their own history. Russell's engaging narrative reminds readers that public commemorations of Black women's history are a product of Black women's history itself—a history of labor, fundraising, intellectual work, and local politics."—Lynn M. Hudson, author of West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line|Alexandria Russell is a W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Interim Vice President of Education and External Engagement at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.