A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women

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<span><span>A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 19501975</span><span> challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women who joined the Original Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights-Black Power era. This book is the first major investigation of the subject that engages a wide scope of women from The Nation and utilizes a wealth of primary documents and personal interviews to reveal the importance of women in this community. Jeffries reveals that women were respected in the movement and maintained a very clear and often sought after voice in the advancement of the Original Nation of Islam.<br></span></span><br><span><span>A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women</span><span> replaces the typical portrait of the subservient and irrelevant African American Muslim woman with a far more accurate picture of their integral leadership and substantial contributions to the rise of Islam and black consciousness in the self-determination movement in the United States and beyond during the Civil Rights-Black Power era.<br><br></span></span>

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<span><span>Bayyinah S. Jeffries</span><span> is assistant professor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University.</span></span>

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