How did the transition within industrial-based capitalism expand the role of black women’s activism in the fight against racism in the United States and around the world?
Discuss the Atlanta washer women’s strike; Lucy Parsons and the anticapitalist struggles of radical women in the northern cities at the turn of the century; black women of the “Old Left” in NYC and their struggles for workers’ rights; Caribbean radical women such as Elma Francois; black women postal workers for the US military during World War II.