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Title Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965 / edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  E185.61 .W828 2009    Available  ---
Description xxvii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : recovering women's voices from the Civil Rights Movement -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Sarah Patton Boyle -- Mamie Till Bradley -- Daisy S. Lampkin -- Rosa Parks -- Agnes E. Meyer -- Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin -- Frances H. Williams -- Edith S. Sampson -- Johnnie Carr -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Dorothy Tilly -- Della D. Sullins -- Barbara Posey -- Priscilla Stephens -- Casey Hayden -- Modjeska M. Simkins -- Charlotta Bass -- Diane Nash -- Lillian Smith -- Katie Louchheim -- Anne Braden -- Marion King -- Margaret C. McCulloch -- Jane Schutt -- Dorothy Height -- Marie Foster -- Pauli Murray -- Myrlie Evers -- Ella Baker -- Victoria Gray -- Elizabeth Gray -- Elizabeth Allen -- Rita L. Schwerner -- Ruth Steiner -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Annie Devine -- Dorothy Cottton -- Martha Ragland -- Constance Baker Motley.
Summary Presents thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle for civil rights was at its most intense. Many are published or transcribed from audio tape for the first time. Each speech is preceded by an introduction of the speaker and occasion that highlights key biographical and background details. The collection also provides a general introduction that places these public addresses in context.
Subject Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Civil rights movements.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Women civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
African American women civil rights workers.
Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women.
United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
Race relations.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Houck, Davis W.
Dixon, David E.
ISBN 9781604731071 cloth alkaline paper
1604731079 cloth alkaline paper