Format:
Book
Title:
Women in the Civil Rights movement : trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965 / edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods ; associate editors, Broadus Butler, Marymal Dryden, and Melissa Walker.
Call Number:
323.173 Women
Edition:
1st paperback edition
Publisher, Date:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.
Description:
xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
African American women -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Congresses.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Congresses.
United States -- Race relations -- Congresses.
Other Author:
Crawford, Vicki L.
Rouse, Jacqueline Anne.
Woods, Barbara, 1949-
Georgia State University. Division of Continuing Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Contents:
Men led, but women organized : movement participation of women in the Mississippi Delta / Charles Payne -- Beyond the human self : grassroots activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement / Vicki Crawford -- Is this America? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party / Mamie E. Locke -- Civil rights women : a source for doing womanist theology / Jacquelyn Grant -- Ella Baker and the origins of "participatory democracy" / Carol Mueller -- Trailblazers : women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott / Mary Fair Burks -- Septima P. Clark and the struggle for human rights / Grace Jordan McFadden -- Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957 / Barbara A. Woods -- Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement / Annette K. Brock -- The women of Highlander/ Donna Langston -- The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961 / Sandra B. Oldendorf -- The role of Black women in the civil rights movement / Anne Standley -- Women as culture carriers in the civil rights movement : Fannie Lou Hamer / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Behind the scenes : Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater / Clarissa Myrick-Harris -- A reluctant but persistent warrior : Eleanor Roosevelt and the early civil rights movement / Allida M. Black -- Methodist women integrate schools and housing, 1952-1959 / "And the pressure never let up" : Black women, white women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948 / Sharlene Voogd Cochrane.
ISBN:
0253208327
9780253208323