Womanpower Unlimited and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi /

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"Provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom Riders, who were unjustly arrested and tortured in the M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Tiyi Makeda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Colección:Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Temas:
Womanpower Unlimited > History.
Womanpower Unlimited
1900-1999
African American women political activists > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American women > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Femmes activistes noires américaines > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noires américaines > Mississippi > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American women civil rights workers
African American women political activists
African American women > Social conditions
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mississippi
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Women are the humanizers of the struggle" : Black women's legacy of activism
  • "It was just women who dared to dream" : the emergence of Womanpower Unlimited
  • "You could just see things being accomplished" : the women who built the movement
  • "'cause I love my people" : sustaining the people and the movement
  • "We who believe in freedom" : interracial cooperation and peace activism
  • "Welcome, ladies, to Magnolialand" : Womanpower and Wednesdays Women
  • "When there was a need" : ministering to the people
  • Conclusion: Women's power transformed : joining forces with the National Council of Negro Women
  • Epilogue: "This woman's work" : activism in the post-civil rights Years.

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