With Her Fist Raised - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook With Her Fist Raised write by Laura L. Lovett. This book was released on 2021-01-19. With Her Fist Raised available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources. Hughes’s realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities. With expert research, which includes Hughes’s own accounts of her life, With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told.
Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-city is this Anyway!
Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-city is this Anyway! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-city is this Anyway! write by Dorothy Pitman Hughes. This book was released on 2000. Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-city is this Anyway! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a definitive reference to economic opportunities within black communities and nationally--where to go, what to do and how to get there in the billion-dollar public offering and stock investment industry. This internationally acclaimed book has a complete listing of investment institutions, foundations, philanthropic organizations, and government agencies.
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing write by LAUREN. HOUGH. This book was released on 2022-04-12. Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Little Virtues
The Little Virtues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Little Virtues write by Natalia Ginzburg. This book was released on 2017-09-12. The Little Virtues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
We Are Indivisible
We Are Indivisible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are Indivisible write by Leah Greenberg. This book was released on 2019-11-05. We Are Indivisible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This national bestseller is not only the guiding “centerpiece of a robust new grassroots machinery” (Rolling Stone), it is the story of democracy under threat. It’s the story of a movement rising up to respond. And it’s a story of what comes next. Shortly after Trump’s 2016 election, two outraged former congressional staffers wrote and posted a tactical guide to resisting the Trump agenda. This Google Doc entitled “Indivisible” was meant to be read by friends and family. No one could have predicted what happened next. It went viral, sparking the creation of thousands of local Indivisible groups in red, blue, and purple states, mobilizing millions of people who had never engaged in politics before. Between one and two million were inspired—they canvassed, caravanned, shouted back, and ran for office. Proof of concept: A blue 116th House of Representatives. In We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, the directors of Indivisible tell the story of the movement. They offer a behind-the-scenes look at how change comes to Washington, whether Washington wants it or not. And they explain how we’ll win the coming fight for the future of American democracy. We Are Indivisible isn’t a book of platitudes about hope; it’s a steely-eyed guide to people power—how to find it, how to build it, and how to use it to save our country. *All proceeds to the author go to Indivisible’s Save Democracy Fund
