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Sisters in the struggle : African American women in the civil rights-Black power movement /
Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2001]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: In the whip of the whirlwind : African American women in the civil rights-Black power movement
- Part I: Laying the groundwork : African American women and civil rights before 1950: "Closed doors" : Mary McLeod Bethune on civil rights / Mary McLeod Bethune ; introduction by Elaine M. Smith
- For the race in general and Black women in particular : the civil rights activities of African American women's organizations, 1915-50 / V.P. Franklin and Bettye Collier-Thomas
- Behind-the-scenes view of a behind-the-scenes organizer : the roots of Ella Baker's political passions / Barbara Ransby
- Part II: Personal narratives: "Tired of giving in" : the launching of the Montgomery bus boycott / Rosa Parks
- "Heirs to a legacy of struggle" : Charlayne Hunter integrates the University of Georgia / Charlayne Hunter Gault
- "We wanted the voice of a woman to be heard" : Black women and the 1963 march on Washington / Dorothy I. Height
- Part III: Women, leadership, and civil rights: "We seek to know ... in order to speak the truth" : nurturing the seeds of discontent : Septima P. Clark and participatory leadership / Jacqueline A. Rouse
- African American women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party / Vicki Crawford
- Anger, memory, and personal power : Fannie Lou Hamer and civil rights leadership / Chana Kai Lee
- Part IV: From civil rights to Black power : African American women and Nationalism: "Chronicle of a death foretold" : Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge movement, and the radical Black activist tradition / Sharon Harley
- Black women and Black power : the case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming
- "Ironies of the Saint" : Malcolm X, Black women, and the price of protection / Farah Jasmine Griffin
- "No one ever asks what a man's role in the revolution is" : gender politics and leadership in the Black Panther Party, 1966-71 / Tracye A. Matthews
- Part V: Law, feminism, and politics: "Joanne is you and Joanne is me" : a consideration of African American women and the "Free Joan Little" movement, 1974-75 / Genna Rae McNeil
- From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee Collective : Black feminist organizing, 1960-80 / Duchess Harris
- The civil rights-Black power legacy : Black women elected officials at the local, state, and national levels / Linda Faye Williams.