A Shining Thread of Hope

The History of Black Women in America

Author: Darlene Clark Hine
Secondary Author: Kathleen Thompson
ISBN: 076790110X

Encompassing both the panoramic story of black women in America and the intimate, evocative details of the lives of individual women, this landmark history offers a new perspective on a long-neglected area of our country's history. At its greatest moments and in its cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, in "A Shining Thread of Hope, the inspiring story of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two experts in the fields of African American and women's history. In this engagingly written narrative history, coauthors Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson illuminate the roots of the present-day black community and make evident that our understanding of women's history, and indeed of American history, must begin with an understanding of black women's history. "A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign

Publisher: Broadway Books
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)