Dr. Meredith Davis reflects on the impact of her mother's influence, the dynamics of gender roles and the unseeability of Black women, the generational influence on women's roles, the importance of serving others and community engagement, recognizing the value of mother's contributions, and the legacy of leadership and influence.

Resources for this episode

• Baker, Ella. “Bigger than a Hamburger.” Southern Patriot 17, no. 6 (June 1959): 4.
• Baker, Ella. Mentoring a Movement: The Power of Black Women’s Grassroots Leadership. Various speeches and writings, 1950s–1970s.
• Bracey, Earnest N., and John Bracey, eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
• Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin, eds. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
• Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: HarperCollins, 1984.
• Harris, Duchess. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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• LeBlanc-Ernest, Angela D. “ ‘The Most Qualified Person to Handle the Job’: Black Women and the Administering of SNCC’s Southern Projects, 1961–1966.” In Sisters in the Struggle, edited by Collier-Thomas and Franklin, 111–35. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
• Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
• Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.