Description
An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed gives readers an in-depth understanding of the numerous Black women, from the nineteenth century to today, who empower(ed) their neighborhoods and communities. Structured as five self-guided tours, with crisp maps and accessible narratives, Lifting As They Climbed showcases seventy-eight women-activists, artists, musicians, and more--through sites and landmarks on Chicago's South and West Sides.
Including Margaret Burroughs, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahalia Jackson, and many others, this updated and extended edition is a testament to women whose stories have gone largely untold, and whose lives reveal powerful connections between their endeavors and present-day struggles for radical community-building and solidarity. With no "official" landmarks to preserve the history of their social justice efforts, this book is an intervention against their erasure.Author: Mariame Kaba, Essence McDowell
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781642599015
ISBN10: 1642599018
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | Historical Geography
- History | Women
About the Author
Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration, the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us as well as the children's books Missing Daddy and See You Soon, and the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation.