Black Women Legacies

Alexandria Russell is a W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Interim Vice President of Education and External Engagement at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Acknowledgments

Introduction.

Part One. Creating Their Own World: Named Memorials of African American Women during Jim Crow

Chapter 1. The Phillis Wheatley Brand

Chapter 2. Commemorating Freedom: Named Memorials of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman

Chapter 3. The Three Marys: Living Named Memorials of African American Women

Chapter 4. Claiming Public Space: The Landscape of Named Memorials

Part Two. The National, State, and Local Stages: Ushering in the Golden Age of African American Women’s Memorialization

Chapter 5. Mary McLeod Bethune and a New Era of Commemoration

Chapter 6. From Murdering Voodoo Madame to the Mother of Civil Rights

Chapter 7. The Madam Walker Theatre: From Urban Life to Legacy Center

Chapter 8. The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Site: State-Funded Memorialization

Chapter 9. Celia Mann, Modjeska Simkins, and Historic Columbia: Re-imagining House Museums in the Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index