1st Edition

Giving a Voice to the Voiceless Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists

By Jinx Coleman Broussard Copyright 2004
    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

    1. Introduction 2. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Militant Muckraker 3. Mary Church Terrell: Captivating Crusader 4. Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Writing During the Jim Crow Era 5. Amy Jacques Garvey: Mouthpiece for a Movement 6. Conclusion

    Biography

    Jinx Coleman Broussard