Words of Witness: Black Women's Autobiography in the Post-Brown EraA literary and political genealogy of the last half century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Angela A. Ards examines how activist writers, especially five whose memoirs were published in the 1990s and 2000s, crafted these life stories to engage and shape progressive, post Brown politics. Exploring works by