ERIC Number: EJ374547
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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"A Layin' on of Hands": Organizational Efforts among Black American Women, 1790-1930.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine
Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Suppl p23-29 1988
Organizational efforts of Black women from the post- revolutionary period to the depression are examined. Informal community organizations of slaves led to benevolent and self-improvement organizations among free women. Major concerns were the family and the uplifting of the race. (VM)
Descriptors: Activism, Black Employment, Black History, Blacks, Community Organizations, Females, Feminism, Slavery, Social Differences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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Note: Student Supplement.
