Leftist Reading

Episode 49:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13 - This Week]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - 00:23
• Claudia Jones - 12:33
Discussion - 19:54

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
41) 01:08
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography (New York: International Publishers,1973). p. 53.

42) 01:38
Ibid., p. 62.

43) 02:02
Richard O. Boyer, “Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,” Masses and Mainstream (May, 1952) p. 7.

44) 02:19
Ibid., p. 12.

45) 03:12
Mary Heaton Vorse, A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935), pp. 3–4.

46) 03:58
Ibid., p. 9.

47) 04:43
Flynn, op. cit., p. 232.

48) 04:57
Ibid., p. 233.

49) 05:10
Ibid. See also Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 116.

50) 05:53
Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, p. 198.

51) 06:38
Flynn, The Rebel Girl. See editor’s note, p. 10.

52) 07:28
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “1948—A Year of Inspiring Anniversaries for Women,” Political Affairs, Vol. XXVII, No. 3 (March, 1948), p. 264.

53) 08:01
Ibid., p. 262.

54) 08:49
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Alderson Story: My Life As a Political Prisoner (New York: International Publishers, 1972), p. 9.

55) 09:26
Ibid., p. 17.

56) 10:29
Ibid., pp. 17–18.

57) 11:08
Ibid., p. 32.

58) 11:30
Ibid., p. 176.

59) 12:04
Ibid., p. 180.

60) 12:21
Ibid.

61) 13:00
North, op. cit., p. 29.

62) 13:25
This article was reprinted in Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March, 1974).

63) 13:50
Ibid., p. 33.

64) 14:27
Ibid.

65) 14:59
Ibid., p. 35.

66) 15:13
Ibid.

67) 15:25
Ibid.

68) 16:06
Ibid., p. 41.

69) 16:41
Ibid., p. 35.

70) 17:44
Flynn, The Alderson Story, p. 118.

71) 19:27
Ibid., p. 211.

Episode 47:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - This Week]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN - 00:26
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 00:56
William Z. Foster, History of the Communist Party of the United States (New York: International Publishers, 1952), pp. 28ff.

2) 01:42
Ibid., Chapter 5.

3) 02:25
Bruce Dancis, “Socialism and Women in the United States, 1900–1912,” Socialist Revolution, No. 27, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January-March, 1976), p. 85.

4) 02:40
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 281–284.

5) 03:02
Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 113.

6) 03:32
Ibid., p. 125.

7) 05:11
Foster, The Negro People, p. 403.

8) 05:53
Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, p. 107

9) 06:42
Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 264.

10) 07:29

Carolyn Asbaugh, Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1976. Published for the Illinois Labor History Society).

11) 08:16

Ibid., pp. 30–33.

12) 08:59
Ibid., p. 112.

13) 09:14
Ibid., p. 117.

14) 09:28
Ibid., p. 136.

15) 10:38
Ibid., pp. 65–66.

16) 10:48
Ibid., p. 66.

17) 11:36
Ibid., p. 217.

18) 11:53
Ibid.

19) 12:33
A brief description of the Tom Mooney case can be found in Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 131 and p. 380. For the Scottsboro case, see Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 286, and Foster, The Negro People, pp. 482–483; Angelo Herndon case: History of the Communist Party, p. 288, and The Negro People, p. 461 and p. 483.

20) 12:43
Asbaugh, op. cit., p. 261.

21) 13:03
Ibid., p. 267.

22) 13:58
Joseph North, “Communist Women.” Political Affairs Vol. LI, No. 3 (March, 1971), p. 31.

23) 15:06
Ella Reeve Bloor, We Are Many: An Autobiography (New York: International Publishers, 1940), p.224.

24) 15:48
Ibid., p. 250.

25) 16:00
Ibid.

26) 16:36
Ibid., p. 254.

27) 16:58
Ibid.

28) 17:46
Ibid., p. 255.

29) 18:16
Ibid.

30) 18:25
Ibid.

31) 19:20
Ibid., p. 256.

32) 20:06
Ibid.

33) 21:09
Al Richmond, Native Daughter: The Story of Anita Whitney (San Francisco: Anita Whitney 75th Anniversary Committee, 1942). See Chapter 4.

34) 21:35
Ibid., p. 70.

35) 21:45
Ibid., p. 78.

36) 22:22
Ibid., p. 94.

37) 22:56
Ibid., p. 95.

38) 23:11
Ibid., pp. 95–96.

39) 24:38
Ibid., p. 139.

40) 25:27
Ibid., p. 198

Episode 47:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11 - This week]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Reading - 00:24
Discussion - 23:43

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 00:59
Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 83.

2) 01:13
Ibid.

3) 02:02
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 161.

4) 02:10
Ibid.

5) 02:50
Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619–1973 (New York: InternationalPublishers, 1973), p. 34 (note).

6) 03:14
Ibid.

7) 04:17
“The Ballot-Bread, Virtue, Power,” Revolution, January 8, 1868. Quoted in William L. O’Neill, Everyone Was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1971), p. 19.

8) 05:20
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 166; p. 167.

9) 06:21
“Proceedings, National Labor Union, August 1869,” Workingman’s Advocate Vol. VI, No. 5 (September 4, 1869). Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., pp. 109–114.

10) 06:42
Ibid., p. 113.

11) 07:18
O’Neill, Everyone was Brave, p. 20.

12) 08:19
Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Vol. 2 (Indianapolis, 1898). Quoted in Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (New York: Vintage Books, 1972), pp. 139–140.

13) 08:46
Schneir, op. cit., pp. 138–142.

14) 09:46
“Proceedings, National Labor Union, ...” Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 111.

15) 10:08
“Susan B. Anthony’s Constitutional Argument” (1873). Quoted in Kraditor, Up From the Pedestal, op. cit., p. 249.

16) 10:45
Ibid.

17) 13:13
Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 352.

18) 14:41
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 446.

19) 15:08
Ibid.

20) 15:26
Ibid.

21) 16:19
Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 169.

22) 17:03
W. E. B. DuBois, A.B.C. of Color (New York: International Publishers, 1963), p. 56.

23) 17:22
Ibid., p. 57.

24) 17:43
Ibid., p. 58.

25) 18:22
Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 168.

26) 19:12
Editorial, The Crisis, IV (September, 1912), 234. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 56.

27) 19:38
Ibid., pp. 56–57.

28) 19:49
The Crisis, X (August, 1915), 178–192. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 94–116.

29) 21:21
Ibid., pp. 108ff.

30) 22:15
Ibid., p. 104.

31) 23:31
Ibid., pp. 314–315.

Episode 46:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10 - This week]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT
Reading - 00:18
Discussion - 21:49

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 02:05
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 447–450.

2) 02:26
Wells, op. cit., p. 271.

3) 03:10
Ibid.

4) 04:44
William L. O’Neill, The Woman Movement: Feminism in the United States and England (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1969), pp. 47ff.

5) 05:02
Ibid., p. 48.

6) 05:13
Ibid.

7) 05:51
Ibid., pp. 48–49.

8) 06:06
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 195.

9) 07:37
Wells, op. cit., p. 78.

10) 07:53
Ibid.

11) 08:47
Ibid., pp. 78–79.

12) 09:00
Ibid., p. 81.

13) 09:25
Ibid.

14) 09:39
Ibid.

15) 09:50
Ibid.

16) 10:07
Ibid., p. 83.

17) 10:47
Ibid., p. 117.

18) 10:58
Ibid., p. 121.

19) 11:12
Ibid., pp. 121–122.

20) 11:30
Ibid.

21) 11:35
Ibid.

22) 13:24
Ibid.

23) 13:52
Ibid.

24) 14:27
Ibid., p. 242.

25) 14:38
Ibid.

26) 15:29
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 575–576.

27) 15:51
Ibid., p. 576.

28) 16:07
Ibid., pp. 575–576.

29) 16:33
Ibid., p. 444.

30) 17:19
Wells, op. cit., p. 78.

31) 17:35
Ibid.

32) 17:58
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 206ff.

33) 18:55
Wells, op. cit., p. 260.

Episode 45:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9 - This week]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM
Reading - 00:32
Discussion - 34:43

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 02:08
Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Auto-Biography of Ida B. Wells, edited by Alfreda M. Duster (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 228–229.

2) 02:26
Ibid.

3) 03:39
Ibid., p. 230.

4) 04:20
Ibid.

5) 04:33
See Aileen Kraditor, editor, Up From the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968), For a documentary presentation of the “expediency argument,”see Part II, Chapters 5 and 6.

6) 05:46
Herbert Aptheker, Afro-American History: The Modern Era (New York: The Citadel Press, 1971), p. 100.

7) 06:11
Ibid.

8) 07:26
Wells, op. cit., p. 100.

9) 07:42
Ibid., p. 229.

10) 08:13
Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 (Rochester: 1902), p. 246.

11) 08:54
Ibid.

12) 09:39
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 930.

13) 10:03
Ibid., p. 931.

14) 10:15
Ibid.

15) 11:11
Ibid., p. 248.

16) 12:34
Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 216 (note).

17) 15:40
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 813.

18) 16:16
Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 328.

19) 16:40
Ibid., p. 333.

20) 16:53
Ibid.

21) 17:49
Ibid., p. 343

22) 18:16
Aileen S. Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1971), p. 143.

23) 20:20
Wells, op. cit., p. 100.

24) 20:34
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 796–797; p. 798.

25) 21:16
Ibid., p. 789.

26) 21:49
Ibid., pp. 789–790.

27) 22:29
Ibid., p. 790.

28) 23:10
Ibid., p. 799.

29) 26:16
Ida Husted Harper, editor, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5 (New York: J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1902), p. 5.

30) 26:23
Ibid.

31) 26:43
Ibid.

32) 27:20
Ibid., p. 6.

33) 27:57
Ibid., p. 80.

34) 28:09
Ibid., p. 81.

35) 28:30
Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.

36) 28:42
Ibid.

37) 29:04
Ibid.

38) 29:21
Ibid.

39) 30:15
John Hope Franklin and Isidore Starr, editors, The Negro in Twentieth Century America (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), pp. 68–69.

40) 30:40
Ibid., p. 40.

41) 32:02
Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.

42) 33:42
Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 83

43) 34:19
Ibid.

44) 34:38
Ibid.

Episode 44:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8 - This Week]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE
Reading - 00:18
Discussion - 21:59

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 00:30
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, Chapter V.

2) 00:46
Ibid., p. 122.

3) 01:15
Ibid., p. 124.

4) 01:46
Ibid.

5) 02:04
Ibid.

6) 02:20
Ibid., p. 123.

7) 02:34
Douglass, op. cit., p. 79.

8) 02:50
Ibid.

9) 04:02
Watkins and David, op. cit., p. 18.

10) 04:52
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 493.

11) 05:46
Ibid., p. 19.

12) 05:54
Ibid.

13) 06:44
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 35–36.

14) 07:04
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 76.

15) 07:23
See Chapter 2.

16) 07:32
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 553 (note 16).

17) 07:50
Ibid., pp. 371ff.

18) 08:48
Ibid., p. 372.

19) 09:17
Ibid.

20) 09:48
Ibid., p. 371.

21) 10:22
Ibid.

22) 10:46
Flexner, op. cit., p. 99.

23) 11:21
Ibid., pp. 99–101.

24) 11:43
Foner, op. cit., Vol. 4, p. 373.

25) 13:49
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 157–158.

26) 14:45
Ibid.

27) 15:26
William Goodell, The American Slave Code (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), p. 321. Quoted in Elkins, op. cit., p. 60.

28) 15:35
Ibid.

29) 16:09
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, p. 565.

30) 16:31
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 27ff. and pp. 99ff.

31) 16:51
Ibid., pp. 32ff.

32) 17:02
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 123.

33) 17:28
Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 181.

34) 17:42
Foster, op. cit., p. 321.

35) 18:07
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 638.

36) 18:49
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 102.

37) 19:06
Ibid., p. 103.

38) 19:37
Ibid.

39) 19:48
Ibid., pp. 104–105.

40) 20:10
Franklin, op. cit., p. 308.

41) 21:31
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 667.

Episode 43:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Confent warnings this episode for:
Sexual assault
Murder

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7 - This Week]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN
Reading - 00:37
Discussion - 25:31

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 01:26
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 113.

2) 02:18
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 228.

3) 04:07
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 747. “Tenant Farming in Alabama, 1889” from The Journal of Negro Education XVII (1948), pp. 46ff.

4) 04:46
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 689. Texas State Convention of Negroes, 1883.

5) 05:15
Ibid., p. 690.

6) 05:37
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 704. Founding Convention of Afro-American League, 1890.

7) 05:54
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 698.

8) 06:16
Ibid.

9) 06:45
Ibid., p. 699.

10) 06:57
Ibid., p. 698.

11) 08:20
Aptheker, A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, Vol. 1 (Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1973), p. 46. “A Southern Domestic Worker Speaks,”The Independent, Vol. LXXII (January 25, 1912).

12) 08:42
Ibid., p. 46.

13) 09:05
Ibid., p. 47.

14) 09:20
Ibid., p. 50.

15) 10:20
Ibid.

16) 10:50
Ibid., p. 49.

17) 11:16
Ibid.

18) 11:42
Ibid.

19) 11:56
Ibid.

20) 12:14
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 462. “The Colored Women’s Statement to the Women’s Missionary Council, American Missionary Association.”

21) 12:46
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 49.

22) 13:28
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 116.

23) 13:52
Ibid., p. 115.

24) 14:05
Isabel Eaton, “Special Report on Negro Domestic Service” in W. E. B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro (New York: Schocken Books, 1967. First edition: 1899), p. 427.

25) 14:23
Ibid.

26) 14:47
Ibid., p. 428.

27) 15:03
Ibid.

28) 15:20
Ibid., p. 465.

29) 15:34
Ibid., p. 484.

30) 15:50
Ibid., p. 485.

31) 16:20
Ibid.

32) 17:00
Ibid., p. 484.

33) 17:45
Ibid., p. 449. Eaton presents evidence which “... points to the probability that among women in domestic service at least, there is no difference between ‘white pay and black pay,’ ...”

34) 18:43
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 229–231. Louise Mitchell, “Slave Markets Typify Exploitation of Domestics,”The Daily Worker, May 5, 1940.

35) 18:58
Gerda Lerner, The Female Experience: An American Documentary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), p. 269.

36) 19:14
Ibid., p. 268.

37) 19:32
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 182–183.

38) 19:46
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 232.

39) 22:00
Inez Goodman, “A Nine-Hour Day for Domestic Servants,”The Independent, Vol. LIX (February 13, 1902). Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., pp. 213–214.

40) 23:29
Lerner, The Female Experience, p. 268.

41) 23:55
Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, “Black Women in a Racist Society,”in Charles Willie et al., editors, Racism and Mental Health (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973), p. 236.

42) 24:44
Ibid.

43) 25:10
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 115.

Episode 42:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6 - This Week]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Reading - 00:38
Discussion - 33:00

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:

1) – 02:30
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1861–1876) (Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann, 1887), pp. 94–95 (note).

2) – 04:02
Ibid., p. 172.

3) – 05:36
Ibid, p. 159.

4) – 06:34
Ibid., p. 188.

5) – 07:34
Ibid., p. 216.

6) – 08:05
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 240.

7) – 08:29
Ibid., pp. 240–241.

8) – 08:45
Ibid., p. 241.

9) – 11:00
Gurko, op. cit., p. 213.

10) – 11:08
Ibid.

11) – 11:59
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214.

12) – 13:50
Flexner, op. cit., p. 144.

13) – 15:20
Allen, op. cit., p. 143.

14) – 16:10
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 167. This passage comes from a speech entitled “The Need for Continuing Anti-Slavery Work” delivered by Douglass at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, May 9, 1865. Originally published in the Liberator, May 26, 1865.

15) – 17:25
Ibid., p. 17.

16) – 18:04
Ibid., p. 41.

17) – 18:52
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 553–554. “Memphis Riots and Massacres.” Report No. 101, House of Representatives, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Serial #1274), pp. 160–161, 222–223.

18) – 19:25
Foster, op. cit., p. 261.

19) – 20:35
W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books,1964), p. 670.

20) – 20:48
Ibid., p. 671.

21) – 21:09
Ibid., p. 672.

22) – 22:24
According to Philip Foner, “Douglass objected to Susan Anthony’s praise of James Brooks’ championship of woman suffrage in Congress, pointing out that it was simply ‘the trick of the enemy to assail and endanger the right of black men.’ Brooks, former editor of the New York Express, a viciously anti-Negro, pro-slavery paper, was playing up to the leaders of the women’s movement in order to secure their support in opposing Negro suffrage. Douglass warned that if the women did not see through these devices of the former slave owners and their northern allies, ‘there would be trouble in our family.’ ” (Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, pp. 41–42)

23) – 23:20
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 245.

24) – 23:50
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.

25) – 23:59
Gurko, op. cit., p. 223.

26) – 24:16
Ibid., pp. 223–224.

27) – 24:51
Ibid., p. 221. Also Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.

28) – 26:06
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 382.

29) – 26:50
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 44.

30) – 26:58
Ibid.

31) – 27:08
Ibid.

32) – 27:42
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 222. See also Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 569.

33) – 28:03
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 212 (letter to Josephine Sophie White Griffin, Rochester, September 27, 1968).

34) – 28:12
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 928. Sojourner Truth was criticizing Henry Ward Beecher’s approach to the suffrage question. See Allen’s analysis, op. cit., p. 148.35) – 28:42

35) - 28:42
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 391. Frances E. W. Harper warned the gathering of the dangers of racism by describing a situation in Boston where sixty white women walked off the job to protest the hiring of one Black woman. (p. 392)

36) – 29:58
Allen, op. cit., p. 145.

37) – 30:36
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214. See also Allen, op. cit., p. 146.

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
Second half Reading – 00:20
Discussion – 24:15

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:

34) – 00:22
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 104.

35) – 01:33
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 159.

36) – 02:08
Ibid., p. 158.

37) – 02:29
For the text of Maria Stewart’s 1833 speech, see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 563ff.

38) – 02:39
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 83. Also Flexner, op. cit., pp. 44–45.

39) – 03:34
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 89.

40) – 04:56
Douglass, op. cit., p. 268.

41) – 05:42
Walker, op. cit., p. 26.

42) – 06:40
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2, p. 19.

43) – 07:14
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, pp. 115–117.

44) – 08:19
Ibid.

45) – 08:28
Ibid.

46) – 08:56
Ibid.

47) – 09:47
Ibid.

48) – 10:00
Ibid.

49) – 10:09
Ibid.

50) – 10:34
Ibid.

51) – 10:44
Ibid.

52) – 11:17
Ibid.

53) – 12:14
Ibid.

54) – 12:48
Ibid.

55) – 14:19
Ibid., pp. 567–568 (complete text of speech). Also see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp.566ff,

56) – 15:25
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), p. 253.

57) – 16:00
Sillen, op. cit., p. 86. See also section on Harper.

58) – 17:17
Foster, op. cit., pp. 115–116.

59) – 18:46
Flexner, op. cit., p. 108.

60) – 19:03
Ibid.

61) – 20:00
Foster, op. cit., p. 261.

62) – 21:13
Gurko, op. cit., p. 211.

63) – 21:42
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.

64) – 22:03
Ibid., p. 354.

65) – 22:21
Ibid.

66) – 23:19
Ibid.

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
First half Reading – 00:22

[Part 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (second half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:

1) – 01:01
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 62.

2) – 02:06
Ibid., p. 60 (note).

3) – 02:57
Judith Hole and Ellen Levine, “The First Feminists,”in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine and Anita Rapone, editors, Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), p. 6.

4) – 03:18
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897 (New York: Schocken Books, 1917). See Chapter V.

5) – 03:54
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 62.

6) – 04:23
Ibid., p. 61.

7) – 04:36
Ibid.

8) – 04:48
Ibid.

9) – 05:03
Charles Remond, “The World Anti-Slavery Conference, 1840,”Liberator, (October 16, 1840).Reprinted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 196.

10) – 05:37
Ibid.

11) – 05:53
Ibid.

12) – 05:59
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 53.

13) – 06:39
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 33.

14) – 08:07
Ibid., pp. 147–148.

15) – 10:38
Douglass, op. cit., p. 473.

16) – 11:08
Flexner, op. cit., p. 76. See also Allen, op. cit., p. 133.

17) – 12:15
North Star, July 28, 1848. Reprinted in Philip Foner, editor, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1 (New York: International Publishers, 1950), p. 321.

18) – 12:50
S. Jay Walker, “Frederick Douglass and Woman Suffrage,” Black Scholar, Vol. IV, Nos. 6–7 (March-April, 1973), p. 26.

19) – 13:24
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 149.

20) – 13:49
Ibid.

21) – 14:04
Miriam Gurko, The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement (New York: Schocken Books, 1976), p. 105.

22) – 15:14
See “Declaration of Sentiments” in Papachristou, op. cit., pp. 24–25.

23) – 15:39
Ibid., p. 25.

24) – 15:52
Ibid.

25) – 17:13
Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, Susan Reverby, editors, America’s Working Women: A Documentary History—1600 to the Present (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 46.

26) – 18:29
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 66.

27) – 19:04
Ibid., p. 67.

28) – 19:53
Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 66.

29) – 20:21
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 74.

30) – 21:23
Ibid., p. 103.

31) – 22:36
Ibid. p. 104.

32) – 23:02
Papachristou, op. cit., p. 26.

33) – 23:40
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 335.