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Author Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1988 : Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change)

Title Women in the civil rights movement : trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965 / edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods
Published Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1990

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Description xxiii, 290 pages, 17 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Black women in United States history ; v. 16
Black women in United States history ; v. 16
Contents Men led, but women organized / Charles Payne -- Beyond the human self / Vicki Crawford -- Is this America? / Mamie E. Locke -- Civil rights women / Jacquelyn Grant -- Ella Baker and the origins of "Participatory democracy" / Carol Mueller -- Trailblazers / Mary Fair Burks -- Septima P. Clark and the struggle for human rights / Grace Jordan McFadden -- Mojeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957 / Barbara A. Woods -- Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement / Annette K. Brock -- Women of Highlander / Donna Langston -- South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961 / Sandra B. Oldendorf -- Role of Black women in the civil rights movement / Anne Standley -- Women as culture carriers in the civil rights movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Behind the scenes / Clarissa Myrick-Harris -- Reluctant but persistent warrior / Allida M. Black -- Methodist women integrate schools and housing, 1952-1959 / Alice G. Knotts -- "And the pressure never let up" / Sharlene Voogd Cochrane
Notes Articles originally presented at a conference held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Oct. 12-15, 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject African American women -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
African American women -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Congresses.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Congresses.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100448
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Crawford, Vicki L.
Rouse, Jacqueline Anne.
Woods, Barbara, 1949-
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
LC no. 90001393
ISBN 0926019228