Description: [AFRICAN AMERICANA, GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONS, HBCU, SIGNED COPIES] GIDDINGS, Paula (Author) "IN SEARCH OF SISTERHOOD - Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement" New York. William Morrow & Company. 1988 First Edition / first printing. Octavo. 336 pp. Hardcover w/ original pictorial dust jacket. Fine. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY GIDDINGS TO A FELLOW SORORITY MEMBER ON TITLE PAGE. _____________________ Paula Jane Giddings (born 1947) is an American writer, historian, and civil rights activist. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984), In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (1988) and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (2008). Paula Jane Giddings was born on November 16, 1947, in Yonkers, New York, to Virginia Iola Stokes and Curtis Gulliver Giddings. She grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in Yonkers, New York, where she regularly and systematically experienced isolation and racism from her white neighbors. As a teen in Yonkers, Giddings personally experienced and witnessed the racism and violence against African Americans that led to and occurred in reaction to the Civil Rights Movement. This led her to participate in the movement as a Freedom Rider. According to Giddings, this set the stage for her desire to understand both oppression and resistance to it, a theme that would recur through her own activism and writing. In 1965, Giddings enrolled in the historically Black college Howard University, where she worked on the university's newspaper beginning in her first year. In 1967, she became editor of the university's literary magazine, The Promethean, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969. As a student at Howard, Giddings was part of a group of students who worked against sexism, colorism, and classism that they saw as rampant on their campus. Please email any questions -
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