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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808785303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-94087-2; 9786612940873; 1-60473-760-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HouckDavis W; DixonDavid E
• Disciplina: 323.092
• Soggetti: Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; Women civil rights workers - United States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; African American women civil rights workers - History - 20th century; Women civil rights workers - United States; African American women civil rights workers; Women - United States - History - 20th century; Biography; Sources.; Biography; Biographies.; History; United States Race relations Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ALLENRITA L. SCHWERNER; RUTH STEINER; FANNIE LOU HAMER; ANNIE DEVINE; DOROTHY COTTON; MARTHA RAGLAND; CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle was at its most intense. Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known acti