Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement /

Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement /

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Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 236 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	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 -- History -- 20th century. Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Southern States. United States. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187260

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Other authors / contributors:	Glasrud, Bruce A. Pitre, Merline, 1943-
ISBN:	160344999X 9781603449991 9781603449465 1603449469 9781603449472 1603449477
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index. Print version record.
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 mobili.
Other form:	Print version: 9781603449465 1603449469
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Summary:	Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE<p>WINNER 2013 of the Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, presented by the Texas State Historical Association<br><br> 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.</p><p>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. Studies of what happened at the state and local levels are critical not only because of what black women accomplished, but also because their activism, leadership, and courage demonstrated the militancy needed for a mass movement.</p><p>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.</p>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 236 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
ISBN:	160344999X 9781603449991 9781603449465 1603449469 9781603449472 1603449477