Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists / Edition 1

by Jinx Coleman Broussard

Overview

This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415947176
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Series:	Studies in African American History and Culture
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jinx Coleman Broussard

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Militant Muckraker 3. Mary Church Terrell: Captivating Crusader 4. Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Writing During the Jim Crow Era 5. Amy Jacques Garvey: Mouthpiece for a Movement 6. Conclusion