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title	:	Woman's Legacy : Essays On Race, Sex, and Class in American History
author	:	Aptheker, Bettina.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870233653
print isbn13	:	9780870233654
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083049
language	:	English
subject	African American women, United States--Race relations.
publication date	:	1982
lcc	:	E185.86.A67 1982eb
ddc	:	305.4/8
subject	:	African American women, United States--Race relations.

Page iii Woman's Legacy Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History Bettina Aptheker The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1982 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for permission to reprint from material under copyright. Freedomways, 799 Broadway, New York, N.Y., for J. H. O'Dell, "Charleston's Legacy to the Poor People's Campaign" (reprinted from Freedomways 9, no. 3 [1969]); The Johns Hopkins University Press for Martin Kaufman, "The Admission of Women to 19th Century American Medical Societies," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 50 (1976); The University of Chicago Press for Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice, ed. Alfreda M. Duster, 1976.

Page v For Jennifer, Joshua, & Lisa who shall inherit

Page vii Contents 1 Woman's Legacy: A Beginning 1 2 Abolitionism, Woman's Rights and the Battle over the Fifteenth Amendment 9 3 Woman Suffrage and the Crusade against Lynching, 18901920 53 4 On "The Damnation of Women": W. E. B. Du Bois and a Theory for Woman's Emancipation 77 5 Quest for Dignity: Black Women in the Professions, 18651900 89 6 Domestic Labor: Patterns in Black and White 111 7 The Matriarchal Mirage: The Moynihan Connection Historical Perspective 129 Notes 153 Index 171

Page ix Acknowledgments The idea for this book grew out of the research for my master's thesis. My work was a comparative study of the labors of Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, two women who helped shape the main contours of the civil-rights movement in the United States in the twentieth century. Without the support of the faculty, staff, and students at San Jose State where my thesis was done, these essays could not have been successfully written. Phillip Wander, Marie Carr, and Herbert Craig, from the Department of Speech-Communication, served on my thesis committee and provided me with their collective historical and critical wisdom. Billie Jensen, one of the first on our campus to develop the field of women's history, also served on my committee. Beyond this formal role, Billie has been a personal and intellectual inspiration. Her criticisms of this manuscript in various stages of its completion and her cheerful, almost daily counsel for three years have been indispensable. In short, she was my mentor. Carlene Young, the chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at San Jose State, provided me with a steady source of material, enlightenment, and encouragement as this work progressed. She secured permanent status for a course on Afro-American women in history and arranged for me to teach this class under the auspices of the Afro-American Studies Department. With their love, confidence, and support my colleagues in the Women's Studies Program at San Jose State University made this work possible. I am particularly indebted to Sybil Weir, Ellen Boneparth, and Selma Burkom who, as the respective coordinators of the program during my years at San Jose State, encouraged me to teach new courses, the research for which produced much of the material included in the last two chapters of this book. I have also received additional and significant validation of my work. Another abridged version of my essay on W. E. B. Du Bois was published in San Jose Studies in May 1975, and it was also presented to a forum on the life of

Page x Dr. Du Bois held at the University of San Francisco in the spring of 1979 under the auspices of the American Institute for Marxist Studies. My work on Du Bois was greatly helped by my participation in a graduate seminar at San Jose State on modern Afro-American history taught by Gloria Alibaruho. My essay on Black women in the professions was originally prepared for the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and presented at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, in August 1978. My essay on lynching and woman suffrage was presented at the First National Scholarly Research Conference on the History of Black Women, sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women in November 1979. Finally, I am indebted to the faculty in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I am a doctoral student, for providing me with the time and support to complete the introductory essay and the final revisions in the manuscript. I especially thank Barbara Epstein, Donna Haraway, and Diane Lewis for their supportive readings

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