Forging a community of radical intellectuals and activists : Black women, the Black left, and the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and 1940s -- In defense of Black womanhood : race, gender, class and the politics of interracial -- Solidarity, 1945-1951 -- Reframing civil rights activism during the Cold War: the Rosa Lee Ingram case, 1948-1959 -- Race and gender at work : from the labor journalism of Marvel Cooke to Vicki Garvin and the National Negro Labor Council, 1935-1956 -- From freedom to freedomways : Black women radicals and the Black freedom movement in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : centering Black women on the left.