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Exercising Citizenship - Ava Purkiss. Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469672724.

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Ava Purkiss. Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469672724.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2025

Samantha de Vera*
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University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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