| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. By Nikki Brown. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34804-3.)

In Private Politics and Public Voices, Nikki Brown examines twenty years of African American women's activism from World War I through the Great Depression. During the war, African American women conserved food, organized fundraisers, volunteered at Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) hostess houses, and worked as nurses and Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) secretaries. They also engaged in civil rights work, advocating antilynching legislation and voter registration. Following the war, Brown argues, African American women's activism was subsumed by the masculinist positions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).

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