Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J.
Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.įeatured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing, Julia S. Join us for a timely discussion as four scholars discuss how grassroots campaigns for welfare rights and economic justice, sought to make the federal government accountable to poor people and the successes and limitations of the War on Poverty programs that were created.Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. While that war was under-resourced and dwarfed by the War in Vietnam, people across the country fought to make programs responsive to the needs and perspectives of the poor as well as the privileged. These grassroots struggles led President Lyndon Johnson's to declare a federal commitment to a War on Poverty. They redefined militancy and self-determination, insisting that public assistance and economic access were a key to a free Black people. Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964 1972 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Poor people-and poor Black mothers in particular-reshaped notions of rights, dignity, and citizenship in struggles across the country. Yet, until recently, these campaigns have not received the historical attention they have deserved.
"Economic justice and welfare rights sat at the heart of many Black freedom struggles.
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