Book description
A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination
"Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today."-Henry Louis Gates,âŠ
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This is the biography of the authorâs grandmother, Adella Hunt Logan (1863-1915), a teacher at Tuskegee. W.E.B. DuBois, who challenged Booker T. Washingtonâs vocational vision for Black Americans, gave her the title princess. Like Terrell, Logan could âpassâ for white, but rarely did: to travel safely north and to have kidney surgery in a white hospital. Unlike Terrell, she was the product of her motherâs and grandmotherâs longstanding, consensual relationships with slaveholders. Loganâs life was confined by racism, sexism, marriage, and motherhood, yet she urged reluctant Black women to pursue suffrage, lobbied for equal pay, and espoused reproductive rights,âŠ
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