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



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Titolo: Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965 / / edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
Disciplina: 323.092
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations Sources
Altri autori: HouckDavis W  
DixonDavid E  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-94087-2
9786612940873
1-60473-760-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808785303321
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