Sonya Y. Ramsey

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey (eBook, ePUB)

A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

North Carolina Society of Historians Book Award

Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith-Wali R Kharif Book Award

Finalist, Hooks National Book Award

The life and accomplishments of an influential leader in the desegregated South





This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the nineteenth-century term race woman to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s.



Born in 1930, Maxwell-Roddey became one of Charlotte's first Black women principals of a white elementary school; she was the founding director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Africana Studies Department; and she cofounded the Afro-American Cultural and Service Center, now the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture. Maxwell-Roddey founded the National Council for Black Studies, helping institutionalize the field with what is still its premier professional organization, and served as the 20th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., one of the most influential Black women's organizations in the United States.



Using oral histories and primary sources that include private records from numerous Black women's home archives, Ramsey illuminates the intersectional leadership strategies used by Maxwell-Roddey and other modern race women to dismantle discriminatory barriers in the classroom and the boardroom. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey offers new insights into desegregation, urban renewal, and the rise of the Black middle class through the lens of a powerful leader's life story.

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813072302
• Artikelnr.: 75639844

Autorenporträt

Sonya Y. Ramsey is associate professor of history and women's and gender studies and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville.