Book

Fit Citizens

A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America

Ava Purkiss

2023

The University of North Carolina Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Native American and Black girls tossing around a medicine ball in a circle.

Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking

How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.

by Ava Purkiss via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 17, 2023

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