Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-black Power Movement

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Bettye Collier-Thomas, V.P. Franklin
NYU Press, 2001 - 363 páginas

The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement

Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual 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.

 

Índice

Laying the Groundwork African American
9
For the Race in General and Black Women
21
BehindtheScenes View of a BehindtheScenes
42
Personal Narratives
59
Charlayne Hunter
75
Women Leadership and Civil Rights
93
African American Women in the Mississippi
121
From Civil Rights to Black Power
171
Malcolm X Black Women
214
No One Ever Asks What a Mans Role in
230
Law Feminism and Politics
257
From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee
280
Black
306
Selected Bibliography
333
Permissions
343
Index
349

The Case of Ruby
197

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V.P. Franklin is Distinguished Professor of History at Drexel University. He is the author of several books, including Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography and Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition.

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