Dorothy Pitman Hughes:
From West Georgia to the Westside, The Transformative Power of Community for a Black Feminist

Dr. Laura Lovett, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Laura L. Lovett is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches courses on women's history, the history of childhood and youth, and public history. She is the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930. She is the co-editor of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made, and of “It’s Our Movement Now”: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Her presentation on Dorothy Pitman Hughes stems from her new book With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism. The book came out in January 2021.