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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Black women in United States history ; v. 16Publication details: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1990.Description: xxiii, 290, 17 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0926019228
Other title:
  • Black women in United States History
Subject(s):
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks E185.86.B543 1990 1 Available 33710000940317

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.

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.