A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

Author:Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Beacon Press

AS AUGUSTA SAVAGE LEARNED, even with the second wave of federal assistance, many of the intended programs administered by the WPA came up short. Through sheer will and collective action, Augusta’s talent ultimately placed her at the vanguard of politically engaged Black artists and activists in Harlem. Other Black women managed to inspire social movements, continue to build institutions and organizations, and helped define new Black identities and cultures. Together, they survived the Depression. Augusta found ways to weather all that the era’s groundbreaking heights and equally stunning depths extracted, though not unscathed. Her Black female contemporaries, too, went from exhilarating rides in one instance only to find themselves battered and abruptly stranded in the next. Yet African American women seemed to develop a rhythm for the upheavals. In the decades ahead, they would lay the groundwork to mobilize on behalf of themselves and Black civil rights on a national scale.

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