04082nam 2200757 a 450 991045521000332120200520144314.01-282-48478-897866124847801-60473-351-9(CKB)1000000000816890(EBL)515622(OCoLC)468780600(SSID)ssj0000344706(PQKBManifestationID)11273698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344706(PQKBWorkID)10315583(PQKB)11032779(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203670(MiAaPQ)EBC515622(OCoLC)864853079(MdBmJHUP)muse13687(Au-PeEL)EBL515622(CaPaEBR)ebr10340758(CaONFJC)MIL248598(EXLCZ)99100000000081689020081017d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrYou must be from the North[electronic resource] Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement /Kimberly K. LittleJackson University Press of Mississippic20091 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-228-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-213) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: TRASHING JIM CROW: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Chapter 1 "YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH." "YES, NORTH MISSISSIPPI": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964; Chapter 2 "ALL ARE WORTHY": "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform; Chapter 3 "THE MESSAGE CAME ON A BEAM OF LIGHT": Women in Religious Groups; Chapter 4 RAISING A GENERATION THAT DOES NOT HATE: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis ActivistsChapter 5 "LITTLE OLD LADIES WITH TENNIS SHOES": The Relationship Between White Women and Racial Reform in a Post-King MemphisChapter 6 "BE THANKFUL IT WAS ONLY SAND": Community Reaction to White Women in a Movement for Black Civil Rights; Chapter 7 "I AM NOT YOUR SOCIAL CONSCIENCE": Busing in the Memphis City Schools; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index""You must be from the North,"" was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between the two World Wars and typically omitted from the history of the civil rights movement. The women for the most part did not jeopardize their lives by paWomen, WhitePolitical activityTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryCivil rights workersTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryWomen, WhiteTennesseeMemphisBiographyCivil rights workersTennesseeMemphisBiographyAfrican AmericansCivil rightsTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryCommunity lifeTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryMemphis (Tenn.)Race relationsHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Women, WhitePolitical activityHistoryCivil rights workersHistoryWomen, WhiteCivil rights workersAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryCommunity lifeHistory323.092/2Little Kimberly K913391MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455210003321You must be from the North2046014UNINA