Not in Our Town’s Continuing Conversation on Race and White Privilege presents the author of The Georgia of the North is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Black women played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey. These leaders forged interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances locally and nationally, and were key to securing progressive civil rights legislation in New Jersey. Author Hettie V. Williams Ph.D. is currently a professor of history at Monmouth University in the Department of History and Anthropology. Her research and teaching interests include African American intellectual history, women’s history, and race/ethnic studies in a global context.
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