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Our Separate Ways

Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina

By: Christina Greene

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Paperback | 30 April 2005

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In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change.

Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings.

Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

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"I know of no other work that so consistently details the importance of women's organizational networks to civil rights activism."

Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia, author of "For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"

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If you want anything done, get the women and the children : fighting Jim Crow in the 1940s and 1950s	p. 7
A few still, small voices : black freedom and white allies in the doldrums	p. 33
The sisters behind the brothers : the Durham movement, 1957-1963	p. 63
The uninhibited voice of the poor : Africa American women and neighborhood organizing	p. 105
Someday,...the colored and white will stand together : organizing poor whites	p. 139
I can't catch everybody, but I can try : Black Power politics, the boycott, and the decline of neighborhood organizing	p. 165
Visiting ladies : interracial sisterhood and the politics of respectability	p. 195
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Our Separate Ways

Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina

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