Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

by Wanda A. Hendricks

Book Overview

Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079590
• ISBN13: 9780252079597
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"