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1143) Benjamin Hooks
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A biography of African American lawyer Benjamin Hooks, who continues to speak and teach about racial justice and equality since his 1992 retirement from the position of executive director of the NAACP.
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This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.