This in-person event is a part of the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book and will take place at the shop.
In 1961, an African American working-class self-defense advocate, Mae Mallory, provided support and weapons to the Negroes with Guns Movement. She spent thirteen months in a Cleveland jail after being accused of kidnapping a Ku Klux Klan couple. Other African American women radical activists and organizations bound together to support Mallory. Later, these individuals joined the Tanzanian, Grenadian, and Nicaraguan World Revolutions. In Mae Mallory, World Defense Committee, and World Revolutions, Paula Marie Seniors blends personal accounts with theoretical frameworks of organic intellectual and community feminism—along with several other theoretical frameworks—in analyzing African American radical women’s activism in this era. Her book answers the underlying question of why these women chose radical activism and aligned themselves with revolutionary governments, linking Black human rights to world revolutions.
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Order the Book Ahead of Time from New Dominion Bookshop
Shop local and support your community bookstore! You can order your books ahead of time for the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book by filling out the contact form below. Please make sure that you list the book title(s) that you would like to order. We will give you a call when your order is ready. There is no need to pre-pay. We will collect your payment when you pick up your order or when your order is shipped. Books will also be for sale on-site at the event. (There is no need to place an order if you plan to attend the event and purchase books there in person.)