Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965

By: Barbara Woods (Editor), Vicki L. Crawford (Editor), Jacqueline Anne Rouse (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 1993

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" Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight." --Julian Bond

" . . . remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." --Manning Marable

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.

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"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles... It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight." Julian Bond " ... the volume remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." Manning Marable

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta	p. 1
Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement	p. 13
Is This America? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party	p. 27
Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology	p. 39
Ella Baker and the Origins of "Participatory Democracy"	p. 51
Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 71
Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights	p. 85
Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957	p. 99
Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement	p. 121
The Women of Highlander	p. 145
The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961	p. 169
The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement	p. 183
Women as Culture Carriers in the Civil Rights Movement: Fannie Lou Hamer	p. 203
Behind the Scenes: Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater	p. 219
A Reluctant but Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement	p. 233
Methodist Women Integrate Schools and Housing, 1952-1959	p. 251
"And the Pressure Never Let Up": Black Women, White Women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948	p. 259
The Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 277
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