Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
Sonya Ramsey
University Press of Florida
This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South.
Sonya Ramsey modernizes the 19th-century term “race woman” to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s.