Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Black Women and Social Action: A Historical Perspective African American Women Organize to Ameliorate Social Conditions Club Women and Social Housekeeping in the South Social Settlements and School Settlements Black Bourgeoisie in the Slums or Helping Women: Paradigms of Black Settlement Houses in the North and Midwest The National Urban League and the Professionalization of Black Social Workers A New Image: From the New Negro Woman to the New Deal Epilogue Manuscript Collections

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Examines the volunteer efforts of black clubwomen from 1896 to 1936 and how their work influenced the impact and direction of social services in black communities during the Progressive era.

About the Author

FLORIS BARNETT CASH is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She teaches in the Department of Africana Studies and has courses affiliated with Women's Studies.

Reviews

"Floris Barnett Cash has written a compact study of black clubwomen's voluntarism from the 1890s to the 1930s....[C]ash's work stands as a nice primer on middle-class black women's activism in the early twentieth century. The book's copious details reveal the range of black women's accomplishments, and Cash capably distills a rapidly expanding body of literature. Beginning students of southern. African American, and women's history could do worse than to begin with Cash's book before tackling the more distinguished scholarship that underlines it."-Journal of Southern History

?Cash provides a valuable national view of a process that has been well documented at state and local levels. Graduate students and faculty.?-Choice

?Floris Barnett Cash has written a compact study of black clubwomen's voluntarism from the 1890s to the 1930s....[C]ash's work stands as a nice primer on middle-class black women's activism in the early twentieth century. The book's copious details reveal the range of black women's accomplishments, and Cash capably distills a rapidly expanding body of literature. Beginning students of southern. African American, and women's history could do worse than to begin with Cash's book before tackling the more distinguished scholarship that underlines it.?-Journal of Southern History

"Cash provides a valuable national view of a process that has been well documented at state and local levels. Graduate students and faculty."-Choice