0005) DR. HETTIE WILLIAMS: GEORGIA OF THE NORTH: BLACK WOMEN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY
 

"Georgia of the North" is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Specifically, the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances at the local and national level and their role in securing the passage of progressive civil rights legislation in the Garden State is at the core of this book.

HETTIE V. WILLIAMS, Director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. She is the former president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and has authored and edited six books and several essays, articles, and book chapters.

Recipient of the Eugene Simko Faculty Leadership Award, the PGIS Award in Social Justice, Co-Founder of the Monmouth University Race Conference, Founder of the Works in Progress Seminar Series, and nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022.