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The Silences and Sounds of Black Girlhood

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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    The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference

  • 01-Topsy

    Selling Topsy

  • 02-gardens

    Frames of “Freedom”: Education as the Great Equalizer?

  • 03-Voyage-2

    “These poor girls”

  • 04-Faithful

    Deadly Devotion of a Negress

  • 05-Johnson-Hemming copy

    How Black is Black

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    A Political and Social Harvest

  • 07-BrokenMirror1

    Alice in Harlem-land

  • 08-Elegiac-1

    “By PHILLIS, A Servant Girl”

  • 09-minton-1

    Letter from Minton of Waynesboro, VA to a David R. Goodman, from Charlottesville, VA

  • 10-tinsley-1

    A Gift of Generations, With Love

  • 11-Jet-1

    “Clinging to what they have now”

  • 12-girls-jumping-rope

    Jumping Rope, Pushing Back

  • 13-DoubleStandard

    Rape of an “Eleven Year Old Negro Girl”

  • 14-Bond

    Refusing to be Silenced

  • 15-Shange

    i want alla my self