Description
Book SynopsisLiteracy Heroines is about twelve amazing women who lived and worked in the period 1880-1930 who used their literacy abilities to address major issues in the country in those years, including some we still face today: racism, sexism, voting rights, educational and economic inequality, health disparities and others. They used their exemplary literacy skills to teach, to bring issues to light, to right wrongs, to publish books, articles, pamphlets and other materials to reach their goals. They benefited from focused help in the form of sponsorship from others and provided sponsorship in many forms to others to foster literacy in people young and old. They stand as Literacy Heroines, working in a variety of roles, using their literacy abilities in heroic efforts to serve as respected exemplars and sponsors of literacy for others. They used their grit and willingness to stand up for their principles, took small steps, worked collaboratively, hospitably inviting people to litera
Trade Review
“With Literacy Heroines, Alice Horning offers us the profiles and contributions of some major literacy sponsors whose literacy labors helped shape American education, social activism, and culture from the turn of the century to the early quarter of the twentieth century. These women understood the potent force of critical reading and writing, and Horning underscores how their literacy efforts act as exemplary models for our own twenty-first century literacy sponsorships.” —Mark McBeth, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center/CUNY
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Educators – Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) and Schooling for African American Girls – Gertrude Buck (1871–1922) and Rhetorical Theory and Practice – Cora Wilson Stewart (1875–1958) and the Moonlight Schools – Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) and Native American Civil Rights – Activists – Jane Addams (1860–1935) and Hull-House – Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) and the NAACP – Lillian Wald (1867–1940) and the Henry Street Settlement – Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), Social Justice and the Antilynching Movement – Writers – Nella Larsen (1891–1964) and the Harlem Renaissance – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) and the Woman’s Era – Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) and Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Ida Tarbell (1857– 1944) and the Muckrakers – Lessons and Conclusions – Index.
