Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC /
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | 616 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8159062 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Fighting for My Rights: One SNCC Woman's Experience, 1961-1964
- From Little Memphis Girl to Mississippi Amazon
- Part 2. Entering Troubled Waters: Sit-ins, the Founding of SNCC, and the Freedom Rides, 1960-1963
- What We Were Talking about Was Our Future
- An Official Observer
- Onto Open Ground
- Two Variations on Nonviolence
- A Young Communist Joins SNCC
- Watching, Waiting, and Resisting
- Diary of a Freedom Rider
- They Are the Ones Who Got Scared
- Part 3. Movement Leaning Posts: The Heart and Soul of the Southwest Georgia Movement, 1961-1963
- Ripe for the Picking
- Finding form for the Expression of My Discontent
- Uncovered and Without Shelter, I Joined This Movement for Freedom
- We Turned this Upside-Down Country Right Side Up
- Everybody Called Me "Teach"
- I Love to Sing
- Since I Laid My Burden Down
- We Just Kept Going
- Part 4. Standing Tall: The Southwest Georgia Movement, 1962-1963
- It Was Simply in My Blood
- Freedom-Faith
- Resistance U
- Caught in the Middle
- Part 5. Get on Board: The Mississippi Movement through the Atlantic City Challenge, 1961-1964
- Standing Up for Our Beliefs
- Inside and Outside of Two Worlds
- They Didn't Know the Power of Women
- Do Whatever You Are Big Enough to Do
- Depending on Ourselves
- A Grand Romantic Notion
- If We Must Die
- Part 6. Cambridge, Maryland: The Movement under Attack, 1961-1964
- The Energy of the People Passing through Me
- Part 7. A Sense of Family: The National SNCC Office, 1960-1964
- Peek around the Mountain
- My Real Vocation
- A SNCC Blue Book
- Getting Out the News
- It's Okay to Fight the Status Quo
- SNCC: My Enduring "Circle of Trust"
- Working in the Eye of the Social Movement Storm
- In the Attics of My Mind
- Building a New World
- Part 8. Fighting Another Day: The Mississippi Movement after Atlantic City, 1964-1966
- A Simple Question
- The Mississippi Cotton Vote
- The Freedom Struggle was the Flame
- An Interracial Alliance of the Poor: An Elusive Populist Fantasy?
- We Weren't the Bad Guys
- Sometimes in the Ground Troops, Sometimes in the Leadership
- Part 9. The Constant Struggle: The Alabama Movement, 1963-1966
- There Are No Cowards in My Family
- Singing for Freedom
- Bloody Selma
- Playtime Is Over
- Captured by the Movement
- We'll Never Turn Back
- Letter to My Adolescent Son
- Part 10. Black Power: Issues of Continuity, Change, and Personal Identity, 1964-1969
- Neither Black nor White in a Black-White World
- I Knew I Wasn't White, but in America What Was I?
- Time to Get Ready
- Born Freedom Fighter
- Postscript: We Who Believe in Freedom
- Index
