[2] Gore is one of a new generation of young scholars active in preserving and exploring the infrequently chronicled history of 20th-century black women's radicalism, in the US and beyond.
A chapter on Johnnie Tillmon and the welfare rights movement explores this theme of poor Black women's triple exploitation, and Esther Cooper Jackson, the subject of the first chapter, directly addressed this triad in her 1940 thesis, "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism.
"Gore's book Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War, was published by NYU Press[5] in 2011.
It expands the author's project [6] to recuperate the voices and histories of radical black women in the US in the early Cold War era, and their militancy which produced the pre-history of the better-remembered civil rights and feminist/women's movements.
Vicki Garvin is again highlighted alongside other unjustly forgotten women such as Thelma Dale, Beah Richards, and the communist leader Claudia Jones.