Black women are 10 percent of the US female population yet they are 59% of women murdered. But their deaths occur in private when most Black political mobilization centers around spectacular deaths. Profiling the resurrective political work of Ida B. Wells, Barbara Smith, Toni Morrison and others, Threadcraft builds on her award-winning scholarship on Black women’s access to intimate life and democratic freedom to consider how Black activists navigate the politics of premature Black death.