03620cam a2200361 i 4500 459533997 TxAuBib 20210209120000.0 200512s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020011361 9780807008898 HRD 25.95 0807008893 HRD 25.95 TxAuBib rda Lovett, Laura L. With her fist raised. With her fist raised [BOOK] : Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of black community activism / Laura L. Lovett. Boston : Beacon Press, 2021. xi, 161 pages, [4] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- The Ridleys of Lumpkin, Georgia -- Finding Her Voice "Up South" -- Child Care, Community Care -- "Sisters Under the Skin": Taking the Stage in the Women's Movement -- "Racism with Roses": Miss New York City and the Transition to Harlem --Whose Empowerment? Black Women's Business and the Politics of Gentrification -- Epilogue: Home Again. 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. Provided by publisher. 20210209. Hughes, Dorothy Pitman. African American feminists Biography. African American women civic leaders Biography. African American businesspeople Biography. Feminism United States. United States Social conditions 1945- United States Race relations. United States Politics and government.