A seat at the table: Black women public intellectuals in US history and culture

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Hettie V. Williams

Summary

Chapter 1. "Fired with a holy ambition": Maria W. Stewart and the foundations of Black women's jeremiadic tradition / Lacey P. Hunter

Chapter 2. "Did not Mary first preach the risen savior?" Black preaching women as public intellectuals / Hettie V. Williams

Summary

Chapter 3. "Our group of women": Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Black women in the Christian intellectual tradition / Tejai Beulah

Chapter 4. We led the way: Black women and the civil rights movement at Morgan State College / Simone R. Barrett

Chapter 5. Elreta Melton Alexander: A theoretical approach / Virginia L. Summey

Chapter 6. More than an icon: Taking Shirley Chisholm at her word / Marissa Jackson Sow

Chapter 7. Lenora B. Fulani: Distinguished postmodern revolutionary / Omar H. Ali and Tiera C. Moore

Summary

Chapter 8. "Whoever heard of a woman running a newspaper?" The public life and intellectual odyssey of Charlotta Bass / John Portlock

Chapter 9. "She did it for the culture": Black women visual artists as public intellectuals in the new Negro era / Lauren T. Rorie

Chapter 10. Mildred Fay Jefferson and the pro-life movement: A conservative Black woman public intellectual / Hettie V. Williams

Chapter 11. Naked truths: Dr. Joycelyn Elders, public health, and sex education in the 1990s / Tedi A. Pascarella

Chapter 12. What she knows for sure: Oprah Winfrey and the tradition of Black spiritual but not religious writing / Summary

Chapter 13. "Know where you are going and . . . remember where you came from": Black women in the Army during World War II / Sandra Bolzenius

Chapter 14. Seizing opportunity: African American women in the postwar military / Tanya L. Roth

Chapter 15. "Regardless of what life presents you": Black women public intellectuals in the post-Vietnam US military / Carol Fowler and Melissa Ziobro

About the editors and contributors

Index.