Our Separate Ways : Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Christina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements.

Women, White.

History.

Political Science.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--North Carolina--Durham.

Civil rights movements--History--20th century--North Carolina--Durham.

African American women--Political activity--History--20th century--Durham--North Carolina.

Women, White--History--Political activity--20th Century--Durham--North Carolina.

Durham (N.C.)--Race relations.

Durham (N.C.).

Local Subjects:

African American women.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements.

Women, White.

History.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 If You Want Anything Done, Get the Women and the Children: Fighting Jim Crow in the 1940s and 1950s; 2 A Few Still, Small Voices: Black Freedom and White Allies in the Doldrums; 3 The Sisters behind the Brothers: The Durham Movement, 1957–1963; 4 The Uninhibited Voice of the Poor: African American Women and Neighborhood Organizing; 5 Someday, . . . the Colored and White Will Stand Together: Organizing Poor Whites; 6 I Can't Catch Everybody, but I Can Try: Black Power Politics, the Boycott, and the Decline of Neighborhood Organizing

7 Visiting Ladies: Interracial Sisterhood and the Politics of RespectabilityConclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890867766

9780807876374

0807876372

OCLC:

476236780