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

Table of 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.

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