| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

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Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, editors. African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. Pp. 390. $34.95.

The explosion of women's history in the past generation has been one of the most remarkable achievements in the historical profession. Yet this sizable output of scholarship has done little to advance our knowledge of black women's history in the American West. The historian Ann Firor Scott acknowledged this omission in 1990 in part when she referred to black women's voluntary organizations, in contrast to those of their white female counterparts, as the "most invisible of all." This impressive collection of seventeen essays and an oral interview, edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, contributes enormously to our understanding of black western women across time and space. This anthology includes essays on black women from the era of Spanish colonial rule in New Mexico, the role of African-American women in the civil rights struggle in the nineteenth-century American West, the attempt of southern black migrant women and their families to adjust to life in western cities, and the myriad contributions of black women to the modern civil rights movement. The anthology also contains twelve engaging vignettes of black women and their collective struggle to maintain their dignity and to find their place in the American West. These insightful portraits, several of which are drawn from primary sources, range from the first woman of African ancestry to settle in New Mexico in 1600 to Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher's successful challenge before the United States Supreme Court in 1949 to enter the University of Oklahoma law school.

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