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1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: TRASHING JIM CROW: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Chapter 1 "YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH." "YES, NORTH MISSISSIPPI": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964; Chapter 2 "ALL ARE WORTHY": "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform; Chapter 3 "THE MESSAGE CAME ON A BEAM OF LIGHT": Women in Religious Groups; Chapter 4 RAISING A GENERATION THAT DOES NOT HATE: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists. |
| Summary |
"You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between the two World Wars and typically omitted from the history of the civil rights movement. The women for the most part did not jeopardize their liv |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women, White -- Political activity -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights workers. |
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Tennessee -- Memphis. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Women, White -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
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Women, White. |
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Biographies.
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Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
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Community life -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
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Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. |
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Civil rights movements. |
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. |
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Community life. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Race relations. |
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1900-1999 |
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Little, Kimberly K. You must be from the North. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732283 (DLC) 2008044232 (OCoLC)263604796 |
| ISBN |
9781604733518 (electronic book) |
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1604733519 (electronic book) |
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1282485989 |
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9781282485983 |
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9781604732283 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1604732288 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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