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A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women
African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950–1975
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2014
Summary
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950–1975 challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women who joined the Original Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights-Black Power era. This book is the first major investigation of the subject that engages a wide scope of women from “The Nation” and utilizes a wealth of primary documents and personal interviews to reveal the importance of women in this community. Jeffries reveals that women were respected in the movement and maintained a very clear and often sought after voice in the advancement of the Original Nation of Islam.
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women replaces the typical portrait of the subservient and irrelevant African American Muslim woman with a far more accurate picture of their integral leadership and substantial contributions to the rise of Islam and black consciousness in the self-determination movement in the United States and beyond during the Civil Rights-Black Power era.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7653-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7654-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
173
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 Upon the Education of Its People Rests the Fate of a Nation No access Pages 23 - 50
2 African American Muslim Women in the Nation of Islam Movement No access Pages 51 - 78
3 “Raising Her Voice” No access Pages 79 - 102
4 African American Activism No access Pages 103 - 130
