Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement Paperback / softback
Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Merline Pitre
Paperback / softback
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Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organisational leaders.
They protested, participated, sat in, mobilised, created, energised, 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 mobilised all across Dixie, their particular strategies took different forms in different states, just as the opposition they faced from white segregationists took different shapes.
Studies of what happened at the state and local levels are critical not only because of what black women accomplished, but also because their activism, leadership, and courage demonstrated the militancy needed for a mass movement. In this volume, scholars address similarities and variations by providing case studies of the individual states during the 1950s and 1960s, laying the groundwork for more synthetic analyses of the circumstances, factors, and strategies used by black women in the former Confederate states to destroy the system of segregation in this country.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, Bib. Index.
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2013
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- ISBN:9781603449472
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, Bib. Index.
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603449472
