Women March for Peace
Black Radical Women's Anti-Korean War Activism
$104.92
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2025
Summary
Highlighting Hypocrisy of US Civil Rights Oppression While Fighting for Korean Freedom
The Korean War is commonly known as the ‘forgotten war’ because it supposedly had little impact on American culture in comparison to World War II or the American War in Vietnam. Yet from 1950-1953, the conflict produced vigorous anti-war activism, particularly among Black radical women. Informed by their experiences with racism and misogyny within the US, these women were convinced that peace was …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781625349033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1625349033 |
| Author: | Denise Lynn |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Imprint: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | African American Intellectual History |
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Critics Review
“Interweaving the ideologies and activism of these Black radical women, Lynn paints a portrait of long-ignored radical anti-Korean war activism. The women’s work complements each other and creates a meaningful dissent of America’s post-war global campaigns.” - Melissa Ford, author of A Brick and a Bible: Black Women’s Radical Activism in the Midwest
“By focusing on Black women’s peace work in the anti-Korean War movement, Women March for Peace demonstrates new opportunities for scholars to document connections between and among radical Black freedom movements throughout the 20th century.” - Jacqueline Castledine, author of Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom
Denise Lynn
Denise Lynn is professor of history and director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the Vice-President of the Historians of American Communism and the editor of its journal American Communist History. She has written a regular blog for Black Perspectives and has written for Nursing Clio and Marxist Sociology. Her articles have appeared in American Communist History, Women’s History Review, Indiana Magazine of History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Radical Americas, and Journal for the Study of Radicalism. She is the author of Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War and Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America.
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