From the Book - First Quill edition.
pt. 1. Inventing themselves. "To sell my life as dearly as possible": Ida B. Wells and the first antilynching campaign
Casting of the die: morality, slavery, and resistance
"To be a woman, sublime": the ideas of the National Black Women's Club movement (to 1917)
The quest for woman suffrage (before World War I).
pt. 2. A world war and after: the "new negro" woman. Cusp of a new era
The radical interracialists
A new era: toward interracial cooperation
Enter Mary McLeod Bethune
Black braintruster: Mary McLeod Bethune and the Roosevelt administration
A second world war and after.
pt. 3. The unfinished revolution. Dress rehearsal for the sixties
The women's movement and black discontent
Strong women and strutting men: the Moynihan Report
