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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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station, Tex. :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2013]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 160344999X 9781603449991 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 mobilized all across Dixie, their particular strategies took different forms in different states, just as the opposition they faced from white segregationists took different shapes. In this volume, scholars address similarities and variations by providing case studies of the individual states during the 1950s and 1960s, laying the groundwork for more synthetic analyses of the circumstances, factors, and strategies used by Black women in the former Confederate states to destroy the system of segregation in this country. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 236 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |