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Women in the civil rights movement : trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965 edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E185.86.B543 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black women in United States history ; v. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--History--20th century.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 290, 17 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1990.
- Contents:
- Men led, but women organized / Charles Payne
- Beyond the human self / Vicki Crawford
- Is this America? / Mamie E. Locke
- Civil rights women / Jacquelyn Grant
- Ella Baker and the origins of "Participatory democracy" / Carol Mueller
- Trailblazers / Mary Fair Burks
- Septima P. Clark and the struggle for human rights / Grace Jordan McFadden
- Mojeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957 / Barbara A. Woods
- Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement / Annette K. Brock
- Women of Highlander / Donna Langston
- South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961 / Sandra B. Oldendorf
- Role of Black women in the civil rights movement / Anne Standley
- Women as culture carriers in the civil rights movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Behind the scenes / Clarissa Myrick-Harris
- Reluctant but persistent warrior / Allida M. Black
- Methodist women integrate schools and housing, 1952-1959 / Alice G. Knotts
- "And the pressure never let up" / Sharlene Voogd Cochrane.
- Notes:
- Articles originally presented at a conference held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Oct. 12-15, 1988.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0926019228 :
- OCLC:
- 21035376
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