IntroductionCharisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi DeanSection 1: The Early YearsEditors' introduction Grace P. Campbell, "Women Offenders and the Day Court" Williana Burroughs, "Negro Work Has Not Been Entirely Successful"Grace P. Campbell (writing as Grace Lamb), "How Shall the Negro Woman Vote?"Williana Burroughs, "Trade Union Work Report"Williana Burroughs, "Work Among Negro Women", "Woman and Child Labor in the Colonies", "Negro Women in Industry"Section 2: Labor, Militancy and OrganizingEditors' introductionMaude White, "Special Negro Demands" Thyra Edwards, "Let Us Have More Like Mr. Sopkins" Williana Burroughs, "Women's Department"Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke, "The Bronx Slave Market" Louise Thompson, "Toward a Brighter Dawn" Thyra Edwards, "Attitudes of Negro Families On Relief - Another Opinion" Marvel Cooke, "She Was in Paris and Forgot Chanel"Louise Thompson, "Negro Women in Our Party"Thyra Edwards, "Food Gets Scarcer and Scarcer On Spanish Front, Says Writer Miss Thyra Edwards Tells Dramatic Story of Experiences in the War-Torn Country; Winter Rushing On"Louise Thompson Patterson, "Excerpt from Memoirs on Scottsboro Boys Organizing"Esther Cooper Jackson, "The Negro Women Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism" Section 3: Against FascismEditors' introductionEsther Cooper Jackson, "Negro Youth Organizing for Victory" Thelma Dale, "Reconversion and the Negro People" Claudia Jones, "On the Right to Self-Determination for the Negro People in the Black Belt" Thelma Dale, "The Status of Negro Women in the United States of America"Claudia Jones, "For New Approaches to Our Work Among Women" Claudia Jones, "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace" Section 4: International Peace ActivismEditors' introductionVicki Garvin, "Union Leader Challenges Progressive American" Sojourners for Truth and Justice, "Proclamation of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice"Dorothy Hunton, "Where Are YOU Hiding" Lorraine Hansberry, "Egyptian People Fight for Freedom" Sojourners for Truth and Justice, "Our Cup Runneth Over"Lorraine Hansberry, "'Illegal' Conference Shows Peace Is the Key to Freedom" Eslanda Goode Robeson, "Southern Officers Treat Korean POWS Like Negroes in the South" Dorothy Burnham, "Southern Tenants and 'Croppers Talk About Need for Organizing"Yvonne Gregory, "Pearl Bailey Incident Recalls Life and Death of Bessie Smith"Charlotta Bass, "Acceptance Speech of Mrs. Bass"Esther Cooper Jackson, "This is My Husband: Fighter for His People, Political Refugee"Section 5: Struggling Against White Supremacy and Anti-CommunismEditors' introductionEslanda Goode Robeson, "Unrest in Africa Due to Oppression"Dorothy Burnham, "American Women Join World Peace Crusade"Alice Childress, "A Conversation From Life"Eslanda Goode Robeson, Introduction to Ben Davis: Fighter for FreedomClaudia Jones, Excerpt from Ben Davis: Fighter for FreedomVicki Garvin, "White Advocates of Negro Freedom Continue Tradition of John Brown"Vicki Garvin, "New Hope for Negro Labor"Dorothy Hunton, "Prison: The Bail Fund Affair"Charlotta Bass, "In Retrospect: An Attack - An Answer"

Charisse Burden-Stelly is a sharp engaged radical thinker, representing the best of the Black radical tradition. Along with co-editor Jodi Dean, Burden-Stelly has curated a powerful and enormously valuable collection of writings by Black socialist and communist women, rightly placing their voices at the center of U.S. and international left histories. A great teaching tool and a much needed source of inspiration for contemporary activists.