Until There Is Justice

Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Until There Is Justice tells the story of this remarkable and remarkably understudied civil rights figure.

Jennifer Scanlon is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown.

Prologue: A Purposeful Life
1. A Midwestern Childhood
2. Education: The First Measure of Independence
3. Teaching in the Segregated South
4. Heading North to Spread the Word: The YWCA Years
5. Harlem and Brooklyn in the Great Depression
6. World War II: If Ever There Were a Time for Racial Justice
7. Fighting for Fair Employment, Fighting for Truman
8. "New World Citizen": Developing a National Portfolio, an International Consciousness, and an FBI File
9. Running for Political Office, Securing a Spot in City Hall
10. " A Burr in the Saddle": Anna Arnold Hedgeman, White Protestants, and the March on Washington
11. The 'Double Handicap' of Sex and Race: The March on Washington
12. Religious Activism for Racial Justice: The Commission on Religion and Race
13. Black Power, White Power, Woman Power, Christian Power
14. Refusing Retirement: The Hedgeman Consultant Service
Epilogue: Fighting for Heaven, Right Here on Earth: The Legacies