03623cam a2200325 4500 525678604 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807098219 0807098213 7754ad4c-842b-4a0d-8fc7-317bc27bbba3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5417865 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lovett, Laura L. With Her Fist Raised [Libby Audiobook] : Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism. Beacon Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 132MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 132MB. HTML:<b>The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement.</b><br /> Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources.<br /> Hughes’s realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities.<br /> With expert research, which includes Hughes’s own accounts of her life, <i>With Her Fist Raised</i> is the necessary biography of a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told. African American Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Sims, Sandra. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5417865-WithHerFistRaised.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7754ad4c-842b-4a0d-8fc7-317bc27bbba3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5417865-WithHerFistRaised.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7754ad4c-842b-4a0d-8fc7-317bc27bbba3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)