false <![CDATA[Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa]]> 6031212 1 In the mid-1950s, as many developing nations sought independence from colonial rule, black women in the American South and in South Africa launched parallel campaigns to end racial injustice within their respective communities. Just as the dignified obstinacy of Mrs. Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the 20,000 South African women who marched in Pretoria a year later to protest the pass laws signaled a new wave of resistance to the system of apartheid. In both places women who had previously been consigned to subordinate roles brought fresh leadership to the struggle for political freedom and social equality. In this book, Pamela E. Brooks tells their story, documenting the extraordinary achievements of otherwise ordinary women. In comparing the experiences of black women activists in two different parts of the African diaspora, Brooks draws heavily on oral histories that provide clear, and often painful, insight into their backgrounds, their motives, their hopes, and their fears. We learn how black women from all walks of life domestic and factory workers, householders, teachers, union organizers, churchwomen, clubwomen, rural and urban dwellers alike had to overcome their class differences and work through the often difficult gender relations within their families and communities. Yet eventually they came together to forge their own political organizations, such as the Women s Political Council and the Federation of South African Women, or joined organizations of women and men, such as the Montgomery Improvement Association and the African National Congress, to advance the common agenda of black liberation. By tracing the dual rise of political consciousness and activism among the black women of the U.S. South and South Africa, Brooks not only illuminates patterns that have long been overlooked but places that shared history within the context of a larger global struggle to bring an end to the vestiges of European colonialism. 6206695 31 12 2008 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0 0 8 1 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 14:40:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 11:57:47 -0700 2009 FIRED UP
Premilla Nadasen

A Review of Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa
By Pamela E. Brooks
University of Massachusetts Press

Whom do we credit for the massive 1950s grassroots campaigns for racial justice ...more...]]> 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Fri Oct 16 21:20:55 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 21:20:55 -0700 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Mon Apr 06 09:26:43 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 09:26:43 -0700 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Sun Feb 15 19:26:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:26:45 -0800 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Fri Feb 13 21:46:36 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 21:46:36 -0800 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Mon Feb 02 12:24:57 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 12:25:00 -0800 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Sat Jan 31 14:27:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:27:06 -0800 2009 6031212 1558496785 9781558496781 0 1 Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa 0.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6031212.Boycotts_Buses_And_Passes_Black_Women_s_Resistance_in_the_U_S_South_and_South_Africa 0 0 false Tue Dec 23 11:40:50 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 16:06:32 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6031212