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Free Joan Little
Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women’s section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state’s gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed around the world, Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. Local and national figures took up Little’s cause, protesting her innocence. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman’s right to use deadly force to resist sexual vio...
Calling In
From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together. In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choi...
Between the Street and the State
Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support to the fledgling feminist movement against sexual violence. These entities promoted the carceral tactics of policing, prosecution, and punishment as the only viable means of controlling rape, and they expected anti-rape organizers to embrace them. Yet Black women anti-rape organizers viewed police as a source of violence within their communities, not a solution to it. Between the Street and the St...
Teenage Dreams
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women’s sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers’ access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years.
The African American National Biography: Roman-Tzomes
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Joseph Goldsmith, 1796-1876
Joseph Goldsmith (1796-1876) was the son of Conrad Goldschmidt (d.1817) and Katherine Koenig (d.1836) of Tannzapfen-Muhl, near Rapperswyr in Alsace, France. Joseph emigrated in 1819 to America. He married Elisabetha Schwartzentraub (b.1807), an emigrant from Lich in the Wetterau, Germany, in 1824. The Goldschmidt family is a Mennonite family of Swiss origin. They originated at Richtersweil, Switzerland and settled in the region of Markirch (Sainte Marie aux Mines), Alsace. "Joseph ... [had] residences in Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio and in Iowa where he served as a bishop of the Amish Mennonite churches in Lee and Henry counties."--Page 4. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Idaho, Connecticut, California, Missouri, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Washington, Indiana, Oklahoma, Indiana, Tennessee, New York, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arizona, Michigan, Colorado and elsewhere
