Format:
Book
Title:
Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre.
Call Number:
323.119607 Southern
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2013.
Description:
vii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
African American women -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
African American women -- Civil rights.
African American women civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States.
United States.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Other Author:
Glasrud, Bruce A.
Pitre, Merline, 1943-
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781603449465 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603449469 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603449472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1603449477 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781603449991 (ebook)
160344999X (ebook)