Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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College Station, Tex. :
Texas A & M University Press,
2013
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Contributions of African American women in the modern civil rights movement / Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre
- Professional and organizational leaders. "A tremendous job to be done" : African American women in the Virginia civil rights movement / Caroline S. Emmons ; Making the invisible visible : African American women in the Texas civil rights movement / Yvonne Davis Frear ; Black women in the Arkansas civil rights movement / Jeannie M. Whayne
- Bridge leaders and foot soldiers in the Deep South. Black women in the Florida civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Maxine D. Jones ; Black women in Alabama, 1954-1974 / Stefanie Decker ; "Call the women" : the tradition of African American female activism in Georgia during the civil rights movement / Clarissa Myrick-Harris ; Women in the South Carolina civil rights movement / W. Marvin Dulaney ; Black women activists in Mississippi during the civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Tiyi M. Morris ; Black women in the North Carolina civil rights movement / Dwonna Naomi Goldstone ; Southern Black women in the Louisiana civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Shannon L. Frystak ; African American women in the Tennessee civil rights movement / Bobby L. Lovett.
