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Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s\u2014that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women\u2019s strategizing, management, and sustained work were integral to movement organizations\u2019 functioning, and female advocates of cultural nationalism often exhibited a unique service-oriented, collaborative leadership style.\u00a0
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Essential Soldiers<\/em> \u202fdocuments a variety of women Pan-African nationalists\u2019 experiences, considering the ways they produced a distinctive kind of leadership through their devotion and service to the struggle for freedom and equality. Relying on oral histories, textual archival material, and scholarly literature, this book delves into women\u2019s organizing and resistance efforts, investigating how they challenged the one-dimensional notions of gender roles within cultural nationalist organizations. Revealing a form of Black Power leadership that has never been highlighted, Kenja McCray explores how women articulated and used their power to transform themselves and their environments. Through her examination, McCray argues that women\u2019s Pan-Africanist cultural nationalist activism embodied a work-centered, people-centered, and African-centered form of service leadership. A dynamic and fascinating narrative of African American women activists,\u202fEssential Soldiers<\/em>\u202fprovides a new vantage point for considering Black Power leadership legacies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kenja McCray<\/strong>\u202fis Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Clayton State University and coauthor of\u202fAtlanta Metropolitan State College<\/em>, a campus history.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Atlanta History Center and A Cappella Books are honored to welcome Norah O\u2019Donnell to Atlanta! All tickets include a pre-signed copy of We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America<\/em>. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O\u2019Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women’s stories. Now, in honor of America\u2019s 250th birthday, O\u2019Donnell focuses that passion on sharing the stories of American heroines who helped change the course of history.\u202f 
 
We the Women<\/em><\/strong> \u202fpresents a new and extraordinary retelling of American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that \u201call men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d The pressing question from women since the signing of the document has been:\u202fWhy don\u2019t those unalienable rights apply to us?<\/em> 
 
Through extensive research and interviews, as well as old photos and historic documents, O\u2019Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katharine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, considered the “Black Founders” of Philadelphia who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements, to the first women who served in the Armed Forces even before they had the right to vote, O\u2019Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so, writes the American story anew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Norah O’Donnell<\/strong>\u202fis a multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience covering the biggest stories in the world and conducting impactful, news-making interviews. She is CBS News\u2019 Senior Correspondent, focused on big interviews and projects for the network, and spent five years as the anchor and managing editor of the\u202fCBS Evening News<\/em>\u202fthe oldest and most revered evening news broadcast in America. O\u2019Donnell anchors CBS News Election Specials and is a\u202f60 Minutes<\/em>\u202fcontributing correspondent. She is married to the bacon-loving Geoff Tracy, otherwise known as Chef Geoff, and is the mother of three children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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