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Autore: | Little Kimberly K |
Titolo: | You must be from the North [[electronic resource] ] : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement / / Kimberly K. Little |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.092/2 |
Soggetto topico: | Women, White - Political activity - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century |
Civil rights workers - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century | |
Women, White - Tennessee - Memphis | |
Civil rights workers - Tennessee - Memphis | |
African Americans - Civil rights - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century | |
Civil rights movements - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century | |
Community life - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations History 20th century |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-213) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Activists |
Chapter 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | ""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 pa |
Titolo autorizzato: | You must be from the North |
ISBN: | 1-282-48478-8 |
9786612484780 | |
1-60473-351-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778414903321 |
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