ABSTRACT
Authors need a revolutionary vision of black liberation, one that emerges from a feminist standpoint and addresses the collective plight of black people. Particularly, they explore these continuities and changes by looking at the writing of the late civil rights activist Ethel Azalea Johnson, in an effort to expand representations of African American women's literacies. Ethel Azalea Johnson was co-founder, editor, business manager, and columnist for The Crusader, a weekly newsletter she published along with Robert and Mabel Williams in Monroe, North Carolina, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Another pedagogical strategy for Johnson was the use of history and narrative to confront The Crusader's readers with local conditions so that they could no longer ignore or deny the social, economic and political realities in their community.
