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Fannie Barrier Williams made history as a controversial African
American reformer in an era fraught with racial discrimination and
injustice. She first came to prominence during the 1893 Columbian
Exposition, where her powerful arguments for African American
women's rights launched her career as a nationally renowned writer
and orator. In her speeches, essays, and articles, Williams
incorporated the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois to
create an interracial worldview dedicated to social equality and
cultural harmony. Williams's writings illuminate the difficulties
of African American women in the Progressive Era. She frankly
denounced white men's sexual and economic victimization of black
women and condemned the complicity of religious and political
leaders in the immorality of segregation. Citing the discrimination
that crushed the spirits of African American women, Williams called
for educational and professional progress for African Americans
through the transformation of white society. Committed to aiding
and educating Chicago's urban poor, Williams played a central and
continuous role in the development of the Frederick Douglass
Center, which she called "the black Hull House." An active member
of the NAACP and the National Urban League, she fought a long and
successful battle to become the first African American admitted to
the influential Chicago Women's Club. Her efforts to promote the
well-being of African American women brought her into close contact
with such influential women as Celia Parker Woolley, Jane Addams,
Susan B. Anthony, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Accompanied by Deegan's
introduction and detailed annotations, Williams's perceptive
writings on race relations, women's rights, economic justice, and
the role of African American women are as fresh and fascinating
today as when they were written.
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