Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Civil rights timeline
  • Introduction
  • May the day hasten : Louisiana women and early struggles for racial justice
  • Subversive women : interracial alliances
  • Hardly the "Southern lady" : boycotts and the vote
  • Little Rock comes to New Orleans : Louisiana's school desegregation crisis, 1959-1962
  • The sit-ins
  • The freedom rides and the end of the beloved community in New Orleans
  • Women in the field I : the Voter Education Project in rural Louisiana, 1962-1964
  • Women in the field II : armed resistance and the pursuit of local leadership, 1965-1967
  • Epilogue.