Forward by Dorothy Porter

Civil rights activists, educators, writers, artists, and workers- these are the women of The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, an excellent anthology of essays that provides a more accurate image of the Black woman and her place in history and in the cultural development of our society. Originally published in 1978, The Afro-American Woman includes essays that highlight historical experiences common to Black women. The anthology also features essays that focus on early activists Anna J. Cooper, Nannie Burroughs, and Charlotta A. Bass. This book is a long out-of-print, valuable reference source. It was the first written by Black academics which analyzed these women's experiences from a historical and Black nationalist perspective.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sharon Harley is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland College Park.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is Professor of History and Coordinator of the Graduate Programs in History at Morgan State University. Harley is author of The Timetables of African-American History, and co-editor of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 

Harley and Terborg-Penn are co-editors, with Andrea Rushing, of Women in Africa and the African Diaspora.

CATEGORY

History, Women's Studies