02388oam 2200505 450 991014145270332120170523091600.0(OCoLC)818673575(MiFhGG)GVRL6AMI(EXLCZ)99267000000033474220120717d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrWomen civil rights leaders /Anne Wallace SharpDetroit :Lucent Books,2013.1 online resource (120 pages) illustrations (some color)Lucent Library of Black historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4205-0880-6 1-4205-1105-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-114) and index.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.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.Lucent library of Black history.Women civil rights workersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican American women civil rights workersHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen civil rights workersUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American women civil rights workersBiographyWomen civil rights workersHistoryAfrican American women civil rights workersHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryWomen civil rights workersAfrican American women civil rights workers323.092/2Sharp Anne Wallace1238454MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910141452703321Women civil rights leaders2881345UNINA