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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141452703321

Autore

Sharp Anne Wallace

Titolo

Women civil rights leaders / / Anne Wallace Sharp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Lucent Books, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Lucent Library of Black history

Disciplina

323.092/2

Soggetti

Women civil rights workers - United States - History - 20th century

African American women civil rights workers - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Women civil rights workers - United States

African American women civil rights workers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-114) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: unsung heroines -- Ida Wells and the campaign against lynching -- Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women -- Septima Clark and the citizenship schools -- The women of the Montgomery bus boycott -- Daisy Bates and school desegregation -- Ella Baker, the spiritual leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Sommario/riassunto

Places important topics in context so that readers will understand the connection between black history and the sweep of America's story. This volume covers African American women civil rights workers.