Kaylene Peoples has a conversation with the author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism.  Laura  Lovett is a professor, historian, and author, and her newest book is featured in Agenda Collector’s Issue 2021: Changemakers!

With Her Fist Raised peers into the life of a woman who fought without fear to the injustices of her race and her gender.  Dorothy’s story is told, chronicling an indomitable and unrelentless journey of her efforts to make a real difference for women’s rights, all the while giving equal time to the fight against racism in America. From this biography we learn that the women’s movement is not exclusive to white women.  African American women were there at the helm, and Dorothy Pitman Hughes was on the front line.  Professor Laura LeeAnn Lovett points this out with irrefutable historical evidence.  Professor Lovett is the recipient of numerous honors and was selected as a distinguished lecturer for the organization of American Historians (2017).  She has authored the books Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938; When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made; and the co-editor of several books including It’s Our Movement Now: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference.

ProfessorLaura L. Lovett is the author of many historical works, documenting important events that have impacted women, causing us to ask critical questions about past legislation that led to inclusion, diversity, civil rights, women’s rights, and more.

This book by Laura Lovett is yet another piece of documented history, and is a biography titled, With Her Fist Raised, Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative power of Black Community Activism.  This is a critical historical account that is relevant to today’s women empowerment movements.

With Her Fist Raised is available at Amazon.com in print, kindle, and Audible. Read the full interview with Laura Lovett about the book in AGENDA Collector’s Issue 2021: “Changemakers”! Also available on Amazon.com.

This  Episode of Talk Agenda is sponsored by Bella Composers, and the song is “Amy Marie,” by Peoples Republic from the CD A New Rite of Passage.