You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement / Kimberly K. Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Kimberly K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, White--Political activity--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Women, White.

Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Civil rights workers.

Women, White--Tennessee--Memphis--Biography.

Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis--Biography.

African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Community life--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Community life.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Memphis (Tenn.).

Tennessee--Memphis.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction: Trashing Jim Crow: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968 3

Chapter 1 "You Must Be From The North." "Yes, North Mississippi": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964 11

Chapter 2 "All Are Worthy" "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform 29

Chapter 3 "The Message Came On A Beam Of Light" Women in Religious Groups 50

Chapter 4 Raising A Generation That Does Not Hate The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists 64

Chapter 5 "Little Old Ladies With Tennis Shoes" The Relationship Between White Women and Racial Reform in a Post-King Memphis 87

Chapter 6 "Be Thankful It Was Only Sand" Community Reaction to White Women in a Movement for Black Civil Rights 110

Chapter 7 "I Am Not Your Social Conscience" Busing in the Memphis City Schools 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index.

ISBN:

9781604732283

1604732288

OCLC:

263604796