Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941–1965 (Blacks in the Diaspora) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253208327 ISBN 13: 9780253208323

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1993

Synopsis

[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America.... It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight." ―Julian Bond

... remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." ―Manning Marable

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.

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Review:

"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles... It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight." Julian Bond " ... the volume remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." Manning Marable

From the Author:

VICKI L. CRAWFORD is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. JACQUELINE ANNE ROUSE, Associate Professor at Morehouse College and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Negro History, is the author of Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer. BARBARA WOODS is Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Hampton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0253208327
• ISBN 13: 9780253208323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Crawford Vicki L., Rouse Jacqueline Anne, Woods Barbara