Women in the Civil Rights Movement Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965

Name: Women in the Civil Rights Movement Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965
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ISBN: 9780253208323

ISBN-10: 0253208327

ISBN-13: 9780253208323

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Authors: Vicki L. Crawford, Barbara Woods, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, Jacqueline Anne Rouse

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

VICKI L. CRAWFORD is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. JACQUELINE ANNE ROUSE, Associate Professor at Morehouse College and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Negro History, is the author of Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer. BARBARA WOODS is Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Hampton University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Editors' Introduction



Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta




Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement




Is This America? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party




Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology




Ella Baker and the Origins of "Participatory Democracy"




Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott




Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights




Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957




Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement




The Women of Highlander




The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961




The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement




Women as Culture Carriers in the Civil Rights Movement: Fannie Lou Hamer




Behind the Scenes: Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater




A Reluctant but Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement




Methodist Women Integrate Schools and Housing, 1952-1959




"And the Pressure Never Let Up": Black Women, White Women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948



The Contributors


Index