Womanist justice, womanist hope

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Label

Womanist justice, womanist hope

Statement of responsibility

Emilie M. Townes

Creator

• Townes, Emilie Maureen, 1955-

Subject

• Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
• Biographies
• African American women civil rights workers -- Biography
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B, 1862-1931

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist justice, womanist hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen

Member of

• American Academy of Religion academy series, no. 79

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American Academy of Religion academy series

Series volume

no. 79