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.