HIST 180 PZ -The Other Talented Tenth: African-American Female Intellectuals and the International Call for Civil Rights. 1816-1900

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, African-American female intellectuals used their abolitionist tactics of non-violence to reach an international audience. Their goal was to raise awareness about the horrors of Southern slavery, lynching, and practices of Jim Crow. They were invited to speak at international conferences, networked with foreign thinkers, and forged life-long professional alliances with their male counterparts. This course explores the personal letters, journals, poetry, Friendship albums, newspapers, and anti-slavery novels to underscore the critical contributions they made during the era of emancipation. Moreover, how their work helped to frame the paradigm of activism used by the modern civil rights movement leaders of the 1950s and 1960s.

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