Title: You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement /
Authors: Little, Kimberly K.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Women, White Tennessee Memphis Political activity History; Civil rights workers Tennessee Memphis History; Women, White Tennessee Memphis Biography.; Civil rights workers Tennessee Memphis Biography.; African Americans Civil rights Tennessee Memphis History; Civil rights movements Tennessee Memphis History; Community life Tennessee Memphis History; Women, White Political activity Tennessee Memphis History; Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations History
Abstract: Trashing Jim Crow: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968 -- Ch. 1. You Must Be from the North - Yes, North Mississippi: Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964 -- Ch. 2. All Are Worthy: Woman's Work as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform -- Ch. 3. The Message Came on Abeam of Light: Women in Religious Groups -- Ch. 4. Raising a Generation That Does Not Hate: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists -- Ch. 5. Little Old Ladies With Tennis Shoes: The Relationship Between White Women and Racial Reform in a Post-King Memphis -- Ch. 6. Be Thankful It Was Only Sand: Community Reaction to White Women in a Movement for Black Civil Rights -- Ch. 7. I Am Not Your Social Conscience: Busing in the Memphis City Schools.
Contents: Trashing Jim Crow: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968 -- Ch. 1. You Must Be from the North - Yes, North Mississippi: Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964 -- Ch. 2. All Are Worthy: Woman's Work as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform -- Ch. 3. The Message Came on Abeam of Light: Women in Religious Groups -- Ch. 4. Raising a Generation That Does Not Hate: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists -- Ch. 5. Little Old Ladies With Tennis Shoes: The Relationship Between White Women and Racial Reform in a Post-King Memphis -- Ch. 6. Be Thankful It Was Only Sand: Community Reaction to White Women in a Movement for Black Civil Rights -- Ch. 7. I Am Not Your Social Conscience: Busing in the Memphis City Schools.