Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.
"[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
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
1. Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta, by Charles Payne
2. Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Vicki Crawford
3. Is This Amer? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, by Mamie E. Locke
4. Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology, by Jacquelyn Grant
5. Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy, by Carol Mueller
6. Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Fair Burks
7. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights, by Grace Jordan McFadden
8. Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957, by Barbara A. Woods
9. Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement, by Annette K. Brock
10. The Women of Highlander, by Donna Langston
11. The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961, by Sandra B. Oledendorf
12. The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement, by Anne Standley
13. Women as Culture Carriers in the Civil Rights Movement: Fannie Lou Hamer, by Bernice Johnson Reagon
14. Behind the Scenes: Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater, by Clarissa Myrick-Harris
15. A Reluctant by Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Allida M. Black
16. Methodist Women Integrate Schools and Housing, 1952-1959, by Alice G. Knotts
17. And the Pressure Never Let Up: Black Women, White Women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948, by Sharlene Voogd
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