Our Minds on Freedom : Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frystak, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee), 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American women civil rights workers.
Noirs americains > Droits > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme noires americaines > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Women civil rights workers > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Louisiana.
Louisiane > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Louisiana > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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