Until there is justice, the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Jennifer Scanlon
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Label
Until there is justice, the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Jennifer Scanlon
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 28 -300) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
portraitsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Until there is justice
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
907657591
Responsibility statement
Jennifer Scanlon
Sub title
the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
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
Table Of 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