Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement /

Southern Black women in the modern civil rights movement /

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Bibliographic Details
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
Govt.docs classification:Z TA475.8 So88BL

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