For colored girls who have considered politics

Brazile, Donna, 1959- author.

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"The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For colored girls who have considered politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years--Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore--a group of women who call themselves The Colored Girls. Like many p...

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ISBN:

9781250137715
1250137713

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xx, 316 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

A call to serve
Brooklyn 1980: before Black lives mattered
Jackson '84
Ron Brown
Icons
Jackson '88: democratizing the democracy
We are the colored girls and we shall not be moved
Clinton '92
The bank of justice: giving back after you've been given so much
Clinton/Gore '96
Lunch with the colored girls
Stepping forward
The troubles
Hurricanes and heartbreak, 2005-2006
The room where it happens
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the colored girls
Real power whispers: Dr. Dorothy Irene Height
Love extravagantly
Homegoings
Shoulders
November 8, 2016
The colored girls bringing U.S. together
Alabama, godd*m
Broken friendships and healing spaces
Dear sister candidate

LCCN:

2018017175

Control Number:

2588439

Other Authors:

Caraway, Yolanda, author
Chambers, Veronica, author
Daughtry, Leah, author
Moore, Minyon, author

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