Indhold: The legacy of slavery : standards for a new womanhood ; The anti-slavery movement and the birth of women's rights ; Class and race in the early women's rights campaign ; Racism in the woman suffrage movement ; The meaning of emancipation according to black women ; Education and liberation : black women's perspective ; Woman suffrage at the turn of the century : the rising influence of racism ; Black women and the club movement ; Working women, black women and the history of the suffrage movement ; Communist women ; Rape, racism and the myth of the black rapist ; Racism, birth control and reproductive rights ; The approaching obsolescence of housework : a working-class perspective
