LEADER 05641nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910455678203321 005 20211005085337.0 010 $a0-8147-9038-0 010 $a0-585-43468-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790380 035 $a(CKB)111056486726248 035 $a(EBL)2081716 035 $a(OCoLC)913695311 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246391 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216040 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246391 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188652 035 $a(PQKB)10997458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2081716 035 $a(DE-B1597)548010 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790380 035 $a(OCoLC)51232200 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2081716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10032520 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3025557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3025557 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486726248 100 $a20010313d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSisters in the struggle$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican American women in the civil rights-black power movement /$fedited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-1603-2 311 0 $a0-8147-1602-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-341) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: In the Whip of the Whirlwind --$tChapter 1. ?Closed Doors? --$tChapter 2. For the Race in General and Black Women in Particular --$tChapter 3. Behind-the-Scenes View of a Behind-the-Scenes Organizer --$tChapter 4. ?Tired of Giving In? --$tChapter 5. ?Heirs to a Legacy of Struggle? --$tChapter 6. ?We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard? --$tChapter 7. ?We Seek to Know . . . in Order to Speak the Truth? --$tChapter 8. African American Women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party --$tChapter 9. Anger, Memory, and Personal Power --$tChapter 10. ?Chronicle of a Death Foretold? --$tChapter 11. Black Women and Black Power --$tChapter 12. ?Ironies of the Saint? --$tChapter 13. ?No One Ever Asks What a Man?s Role in the Revolution Is? --$tChapter 14. ?Joanne Is You and Joanne Is Me? --$tChapter 15. From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee Collective --$tChapter 16. The Civil Rights?Black Power Legacy --$tSelected Bibliography --$tPermissions --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aWomen were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and Septima Clark, who created a network of "Citizenship Schools" to teach poor Black men and women to read and write and help them to register to vote. We learn of Black women's activism in the Black Panther Party where they fought the police, as well as the entrenched male leadership, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where the behind-the-scenes work of women kept the organization afloat when it was under siege. It also includes first-person testimonials from the women who made headlines with their courageous resistance to segregation-Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height. This collection represents the coming of age of African-American women's history and presents new stories that point the way to future study. Contributors: Bettye Collier-Thomas, Vicki Crawford, Cynthia Griggs Fleming, V. P. Franklin, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Duchess Harris, Sharon Harley, Dorothy I. Height, Chana Kai Lee, Tracye Matthews, Genna Rae McNeil, Rosa Parks, Barbara Ransby, Jacqueline A. Rouse, Elaine Moore Smith, and Linda Faye Williams. 606 $aAfrican American women civil rights workers$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American women civil rights workers$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBlack power$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American leadership$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American women civil rights workers$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women civil rights workers 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aBlack power$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American leadership$xHistory 676 $a323.1/196073/0922 701 $aCollier-Thomas$b Bettye$01046316 701 $aFranklin$b V. P$g(Vincent P.),$f1947-$01046317 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455678203321 996 $aSisters in the struggle$92473135 997 $aUNINA