Cherisse Jones-Branch, "Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965"
English | ISBN: 1682261662 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists' quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely within Arkansas's agrarian history.