The Struggle of Struggles
Written by Vera Pigee
Narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts
()
About this audiobook
The Struggle of Struggles, originally published in 1975, spotlights the gendered and generational tensions within the civil rights movement. It outlines the complexity, frustrations, and snubs, as well as the joy and triumphs that Pigee experienced and witnessed in the quest for a fairer and more equitable nation.
Vera Pigee
Vera Pigee (1924–2007) managed Pigee’s Beauty Salon in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and worked as a civil rights activist, serving as branch secretary to the Coahoma County chapter of the NAACP, a chapter she helped organize with Aaron Henry. She was an advisor to the Mississippi state NAACP Youth Council, taught citizenship classes, trained activists, and ran voter registration drives. She later became an ordained Baptist minister.
Related to The Struggle of Struggles
Related audiobooks
Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFreedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ida B. the Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHousewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSaving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMadam Secretary: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Need to Be Whole Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Days, Bright Nights: Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Abolitionist Intimacies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat It Takes: The Way to the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStraight White Male: A Faith-Based Guide to Deconstructing Your Privilege and Living with Integrity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetween Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClosing Time: The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Biography & Memoir For You
Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Later Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dead Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Struggle of Struggles
0 ratings0 reviews