Format:
Online-Ressource (437 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781603449472
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Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts. Although African American women mobili
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Contributions of African American Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement; Part I: Professional and Organizational Leaders; 1. "A Tremendous Job To Be Done": African American Women in the Virginia Civil Rights Movement; 2. Making the Invisible Visible: African American Women in the Texas Civil Rights Movement; 3. Black Women in the Arkansas Civil Rights Movement; Part II: Bridge Leaders and Foot Soldiers in the Deep South; 4. Black Women in the Florida Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974; 5. Black Women in Alabama, 1954-1974
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6. "Call the Women": The Tradition of African American Female Activism in Georgia during the Civil Rights Movement7. Women in the South Carolina Civil Rights Movement; 8. Black Women Activists in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974; 9. Black Women in the North Carolina Civil Rights Movement; 10. Southern Black Women in the Louisiana Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974; 11. African American Women in the Tennessee Civil Rights Movement; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781603449991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781603449472
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Language:
English
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