Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race
Rycenga, Jennifer. The Journal of American Culture; Malden Vol. 39, Iss. 3, (Sep 2016): 359-360.
Abstract
In restoring Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) to her rightful place as one of the leading black women activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wanda Hendricks enriches our knowledge of the period in myriad ways, useful to scholars in the study of women, African Americans, religion, and history. A new synthesis of compensatory and social history, this fine biography taps into our twenty-first century desire to trace networks, to interweave race, class, and gender, and to understand an outstanding woman both as her own person and as part of extensive cultural systems.
