A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America - Brossura

"A Shining Thread of Hope offers inspiration not just to African American women but to all people struggling to overcome injustice.  [It conveys] immense amounts of information in graceful prose."
--New York Times Book Review

"Inspiring . . . this lively, well-written, and accessible history celebrates the grit and grace that have helped black American women survive and flourish."
--USA Today

"Remarkably grounded in the complexities of the historical record and of black women's lives, A Shining Thread of Hope examines the mythology of the American mainstream as well as demonstrates a scrupulous appreciation of black women as a powerful but largely unacknowledged force in American society."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A welcome, easily accessible, encyclopedic antidote to the prevailing stereotypes about black women.  .  .  .  The history offered here is invaluable reading."
--Washington Post Book World

"From time to time, a work of history itself makes history.  A Shining Thread of Hope is such a book, marking a giant step in the creation of a more encompassing portrait of our nation's past."
--Nell Irvin Painter, The News & Observer

Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University and the coeditor ofBlack Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

Kathleen Thompson is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Black Women.