Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Jones-Branch, Cherisse
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Jones-Branch, Cherisse

Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965

The first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own...
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Author: Cherisse Jones-Branch
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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Jones-Branch, Cherisse

Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965

$309.49
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Jones-Branch, Cherisse

Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965

$309.49
Author: Cherisse Jones-Branch
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists' quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely within Arkansas's agrarian history.

The Black women activists highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens, Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces where they confronted economic, educational, public health, political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and interference.

Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of Black women activists who uplifted their communities while subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.



Author: Cherisse Jones-Branch
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 04/28/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781682261675

About the Author
Cherisse Jones-Branch is the James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University, where she is dean of the graduate school. She is the author of Crossing the Line: Women and Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II and coeditor of Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times.

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