“Things That Are Survival for Us”: Carol Crooks and the August Rebellion

2025/08/29 by Susie Day · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #German History and Society

paper · doi:10.63478/rjm7xclz

openalex publication_date 2025/08/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Carol Jean Crooks was a Black dyke. Born October 12, 1946, she grew up on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and died alone in early 2022. She worked and fought all her life in relative obscurity. Though most of her work wasn’t legal, her fights created a better and fairer world.

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• ◆Day, Susie, 2025, "'Things That Are Survival for Us': Carol Crooks and the August Rebellion", Spectre Journal, August 29, 2025, (doi.org/10.63478/RJM...). [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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