Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 (Arkansas History) Molly Sawyer heretofore untold stories of some

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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 (Arkansas History) Molly Sawyer heretofore untold stories of someThe first major study to consider Black womens activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones Branch lifts many important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely within Arkansass agrarian history. The Black women activists highlighted here