Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitre, Merline, 1943-

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

African American women--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American women.

Civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

African American women civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

African American women civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2013.

Summary:

Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts. Although African American women mobili

Contents:

Contributions of African American women in the modern civil rights movement / Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre

Professional and organizational leaders: "A tremendous job to be done": African American women in the Virginia civil rights movement / Caroline S. Emmons

Making the invisible visible: African American women in the Texas civil rights movement / Yvonne Davis Frear

Black women in the Arkansas civil rights movement / Jeannie M. Whayne

Bridge leaders and foot soldiers in the Deep South: Black women in the Florida civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Maxine D. Jones

Black women in Alabama, 1954-1974 / Stefanie Decker

"Call the women": the tradition of African American female activism in Georgia during the civil rights movement / Clarissa Myrick-Harris

Women in the South Carolina civil rights movement / W. Marvin Dulaney

Black women activists in Mississippi during the civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Tiyi M. Morris

Black women in the North Carolina civil rights movement / Dwonna Naomi Goldstone

Southern Black women in the Louisiana civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Shannon L. Frystak

African American women in the Tennessee civil rights movement / Bobby L. Lovett.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60344-999-X

OCLC:

841909875