Unlikely Dissenters : White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970 /

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In this work, Anne Stefani focuses on a particular group of white southerners--the minority of white women who lived in a white supremacist society but who rejected the segregationist system and contributed to its demise. She argues that the double identity of these white southern women as both &quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stefani, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women political activists.
Women civil rights workers.
Women.
Manners and customs.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY / Women
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes activistes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Blanches > Activite politique > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Women political activists > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Women > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Women civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Political activity > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Profiles: two generations, one identity
  • Before Brown: southern lady activism
  • After Brown, part one: the tactics of respectability
  • After Brown, part two: open confrontation
  • The 1960s movement: modern abolitionists
  • A peculiar brand of feminism.

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