S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White
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Gertrude Perkins, a Black Woman's Story in a Microfilm
Daniel mc guire tells gertrude perkins story in her book, published in 20 ten. Mc guire says the organizing that happened around the perkins case laid the groundwork for the moment six years later when rosa parks and other black women in montgomery had had enough. Most of these women were working class. They worked as domestics in white homes, and they needed transportation across town every single day. And so they had no choice but to get on those busses. For most of those black women, a the busses were really the bane of their existence.
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