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You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement /

"You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Little, Kimberly K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: TRASHING JIM CROW: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Chapter 1 "YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH." "YES, NORTH MISSISSIPPI": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964; Chapter 2 "ALL ARE WORTHY": "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform; Chapter 3 "THE MESSAGE CAME ON A BEAM OF LIGHT": Women in Religious Groups; Chapter 4 RAISING A GENERATION THAT DOES NOT HATE: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists.