Hine, Darlene Clark

Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia ( Book )
17 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in English and held by 2,286 libraries worldwide
This is a comprehensive guide to the lives of 641 individual black women, most of whom are significant on a national level. There are also entries to more than 150 general topics and organizations involving Black women. Listed alphabetically, the signed entries have bibliographies and many have photographs. The length of the articles vary from one or two columns to multiple pages, especially for the topical entries. Entries are balanced and easily comprehensible. The appendices include a chronology, a classified bibliography, including a directory of research centers, and the biographies classified by occupations. There is an extensive index. Recommended as a first purchase among the new biographical sources about Black women for high school libraries.

A shining thread of hope : the history of Black women in America by Darlene Clark Hine ( Book )
8 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 2,152 libraries worldwide
"Chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South to the triumphs of the Civil Rights era."--Jacket.

Black women in America ( Book )
9 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 1,520 libraries worldwide
Provides biographies and topical essays discussing the important roles Black women have played in American history.

Black women in white : racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950 by Darlene Clark Hine ( Book )
6 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 1,136 libraries worldwide

More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas ( Book )
8 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 1,050 libraries worldwide
Gender was a decisive force in slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited in both reproductive and productive capacities. They did not figure prominently in revolts because they engaged in less confrontational methods of resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.

The Harvard guide to African-American history ( Book )
5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 921 libraries worldwide
This massive guide, sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and compiled by renowned experts, offers a compendium of information and interpretation on over 500 years of black experience in America.

The State of Afro-American history : past, present, and future ( Book )
9 editions published between 1986 and 1996 in English and held by 839 libraries worldwide

Black victory : the rise and fall of the white primary in Texas by Darlene Clark Hine ( Book )
9 editions published between 1979 and 2003 in English and held by 798 libraries worldwide
In Black Victory, Darlene Clark Hine examines a pivotal breakthrough in the struggle for black liberation through the voting process. She details the steps and players in the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright, a precursor to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She discusses the role that NAACP attorneys such as Thurgood Marshall played in helping black Texans regain the right denied them by white Texans in the Democratic Party: the right to vote and to have that vote count. Hine illuminates the mobilization of black Texans. She effectively demonstrates how each part of the African American community -- from professionals to laborers -- was essential to this struggle and the victory against disfranchisement.

We specialize in the wholly impossible" : a reader in Black women's history ( Book )
5 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 730 libraries worldwide

Facts on File encyclopedia of Black women in America ( Book )
5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 660 libraries worldwide