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Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Contributor(s): Glasrud, Bruce A. (Editor), Pitre, Merline (Editor), Glasrud, Bruce A. (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1603449477     ISBN-13: 9781603449472
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.23  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Political Science | Civil Rights
Dewey: 323.119
LCCN: 2012044174
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 236 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - South
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Topical - Black History
 
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WINNER 2013 of the Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, presented by the Texas State Historical Association

Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts.

Although African American women mobilized all across Dixie, their particular strategies took different forms in different states, just as the opposition they faced from white segregationists took different shapes. Studies of what happened at the state and local levels are critical not only because of what black women accomplished, but also because their activism, leadership, and courage demonstrated the militancy needed for a mass movement.

In this volume, scholars address similarities and variations by providing case studies of the individual states during the 1950s and 1960s, laying the groundwork for more synthetic analyses of the circumstances, factors, and strategies used by black women in the former Confederate states to destroy the system of segregation in this country.