Dayo Gore facts for kids

Dayo Gore is an important African-American scholar and professor. She teaches in the ethnic studies department at the University of California, San Diego. Before that, she taught history and women's studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Professor Gore is part of a new group of scholars. They work to find and share the stories of black women activists from the 1900s. These stories were often not written down before.

Exploring Black Women's History

Want to Start A Revolution?

Dayo Gore helped edit a book called Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women In The Black Freedom Struggle. This book was published in 2009. She worked on it with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard.

In the book, Professor Gore wrote a chapter about Victoria Ama Garvin. This chapter was titled "From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria Ama Garvin". It showed how important Vicki Garvin was.

The book highlights how women gave life to important movements. These included the Black Arts Movement and schools run by the Black Panthers. Their work can teach new activists today. It shows how different struggles are connected. These struggles include money, education, work, and social rules. Women organized to fight unfairness and imagine a better world.

Understanding Connected Struggles

The book also helped people understand "intersectionality." This is a way of seeing how different parts of a person's identity, like race, gender, and class, can overlap. These overlaps can create unique challenges.

The women in the book faced challenges because of their race, gender, and social class. They often worked to improve all three areas. For example, a chapter about Johnnie Tillmon talks about poor Black women's struggles. Esther Cooper Jackson also wrote about Black women who worked as housekeepers in 1940. She explored how they faced challenges related to race, gender, and work.

Radicalism at the Crossroads

Professor Gore wrote her own book called Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. It was published in 2011. This book continues her work to bring attention to black women activists.

Her book focuses on the early Cold War era in the United States. It shows how these women were very active and brave. Their actions helped set the stage for the later civil rights and women's movements. These later movements are often more widely remembered.

In her book, Dayo Gore again highlights Vicki Garvin. She also brings attention to other important women who were not always remembered. These include Thelma Dale, Beah Richards, and the leader Claudia Jones.