Title Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

Published New York : NYU Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages) Contents Sisters in the Struggle -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Laying the Groundwork -- Chapter 1: “Closed Doors� -- Chapter 2: For the Race in General and Black Women in Particular -- Chapter 3: Behind-the-Scenes View of a Behind-the-Scenes Organizer -- Part II: Personal Narratives -- Chapter 4: “Tired of Giving In� -- Chapter 5: “Heirs to a Legacy of Struggle� -- Chapter 6: “We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard� -- Part III: Women, Leadership, and Civil Rights Chapter 7: “We Seek to Know ... in Order to Speak the Truth�Chapter 8: African American Women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Chapter 9: Anger, Memory, and Personal Power -- Part IV: From Civil Rights to Black Power -- Chapter 10: “Chronicle of a Death Foretold� -- Chapter 11: Black Women and Black Power -- Chapter 12: “Ironies of the Saint� -- Chapter 13: “No One Ever Asks What a Man�s Role in the Revolution Is� -- Part V: Law, Feminism, and Politics -- Chapter 14: “Joanne Is You and Joanne Is Me� Chapter 15: From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee CollectiveChapter 16: The Civil Rights�Black Power Legacy -- Selected Bibliography -- Permissions -- Contributors -- Index Summary Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and Septima Clark, who created a network of ""Citizenship Schools"" to teach poor Black men and women Notes Print version record Subject African American leadership -- History -- 20th century African American women civil rights workers -- Biography African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century African American women political activists -- Biography African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century African American leadership African American women civil rights workers African American women political activists African Americans -- Civil rights Black power Civil rights movements Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book Author Franklin, V. P. (Vincent P.), 1947- ISBN 9780814790380 0814790380

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