Adjacent to the most powerful distinguished women of the world such as, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamner, and Rosa Parks, thousand of African American women have confronted sexism and other forms of oppression to give a real voice to the directorial power of women. ... Jackson was an active member of the Black Panther Party, created an even more vivid image of her knowledge. ...
He claims that by studying their work it enables the later generations to learn and see working class African American women who were usually illiterate and repressed without a way to tell their stories in conventional ways to their kin and the greater public accomplish this feat by demonstrating through their quilts that they are they are persons with their own minds and voices, (38). Dee is not a part of this kinship of generations as she actively takes herself out of that picture, as Whitsitt points out, during her interlude of Polaroid snapping of everything from her earlier life, but hers...
Then Momma introduced her to Bertha Flowers, a beautiful and educated black woman who brought Maya out of her cocoon by giving her special attention that focused on love of the human voice in the recitation of literature. ... In California, Maya found her mother just as beautiful and active, but more attentive; the man she had married made a good stepfather, and life in the city, with its fluidity and diversity, was exactly to Maya's liking. ...
