Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago by Kaba, Mariame

Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642599015)

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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago by Kaba, Mariame

Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago

$19.95
Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago by Kaba, Mariame

Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.

Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed gives readers an in-depth understanding of the numerous Black women, from the nineteenth century to today, who empower(ed) their neighborhoods and communities. Structured as five self-guided tours, with crisp maps and accessible narratives, Lifting As They Climbed showcases seventy-eight women-activists, artists, musicians, and more--through sites and landmarks on Chicago's South and West Sides.

Including Margaret Burroughs, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahalia Jackson, and many others, this updated and extended edition is a testament to women whose stories have gone largely untold, and whose lives reveal powerful connections between their endeavors and present-day struggles for radical community-building and solidarity. With no "official" landmarks to preserve the history of their social justice efforts, this book is an intervention against their erasure.


Author: Mariame Kaba, Essence McDowell
ISBN-10: 1642599018
ISBN-13: 9781642599015
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d
By Mariame Kaba
By Mariame Kaba
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Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration, the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us as well as the children's books Missing Daddy and See You Soon, and the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation.

Essence McDowell is a writer, researcher, and communications strategist who has worked with numerous organizations including the Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, INCITE!, Black Feminist Future, Chicago Public Library, and the Cook County Historic Archives. She is currently the director of arts and communications at the Social Justice Initiative and community organizing to create a resource hub for a national Black Women's Organizing Coalition.

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