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SUMMARY:Kenja McCray
DESCRIPTION:Not-Yet Member. $12.\n                            \n                    Tickets\n                \n                    \n\n            \n\n\n\n\n\n    \n        \n            Member. $6.\n                            \n                    Tickets\n                \n                    \n\n            \n\n\n\n\n\n    \n        \n            Insider. Free.\n                            \n                    Tickets\n                \n                    \n\n            \n\n\n\n\nOnline ticket sales close at 5pm EST on the day of the event. Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event start time. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAcademics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women’s strategizing\, management\, and sustained work were integral to movement organizations’ functioning\, and female advocates of cultural nationalism often exhibited a unique service-oriented\, collaborative leadership style.  Essential Soldiers  documents a variety of women Pan-African nationalists’ 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’s 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’s 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\, Essential Soldiers provides a new vantage point for considering Black Power leadership legacies.  \n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n			About the Author\n\n			\n		\n	\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nKenja McCray is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Clayton State University and coauthor of Atlanta Metropolitan State College\, a campus history. 
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