Format:
Book
Title:
Until there is justice : the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman / Jennifer Scanlon.
Author:
Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958- author.
Call Number:
323.092 Hedgeman
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:
321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
In Until There Is Justice, author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity.
Subjects:
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990.
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990.
1900 - 1999
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
New York (State) -- New York.
United States.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Contents:
Prologue: a purposeful life -- A midwestern childhood -- Education: the first measure of independence -- Teaching in the segregated south -- Heading north to spread the word: the YWCA years -- Harlem and Brooklyn in the great depression -- World War II: a time for racial justice -- Fighting for fair employment, fighting for Truman -- "New world citizen": developing a national portfolio, an international consciousness, and an FBI file -- Running for office -- "A burr in the saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, white protestants, and the March on Washington -- The "double handicap of race and sex": African American women and the March on Washington -- The Commission on Religion and Race -- Moving the justice fight north -- Black power, woman power -- Refusing retirement: the Hedgeman Consultant Service -- Epilogue: fighting for heaven, right here on earth.
ISBN:
9780190248598
0190248599