Originally published: New York: Random House, 1981

Legacy of slavery: standards for a new womanhood -- 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 -- 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 -- Approaching obsolescence of housework: a working-class perspective

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