Sisters in the struggle
Subtitle: African American women in the civil rights-black power movement
By: edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin.
Contributors: Collier-Thomas, Bettye.; Franklin, V. P. 1947-
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century; African American women civil rights workers -- Biography; African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century; African American women political activists -- Biography; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American leadership -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: P A R T I: Laying the Groundwork: African American; title: Women and Civil Rights Before 1950; title: 1 "Closed Doors": Mary McLeod Bethune on; title: Civil Rights; title: Introduction by Elaine M. Smith; title: Mary McLeod Bethune; title: 2 For the Race in General and Black Women in; title: Particular: The Civil Rights Activities of African; title: American Women's Organizations, 1915-50; title: V. P. Franklin and Bettye Collier-Thomas; title: 3 Behind-the-Scenes View of a Behind-the-Scenes; title: Organizer: The Roots of Ella Baker's Political Passions; title: Barbara Ransby; title: P A R T i I: Personal Narratives; title: 4 "Tired of Giving In": The Launching of the; title: Montgomery Bus Boycott; title: Rosa Parks; title: 5 "Heirs to a Legacy of Struggle": Charlayne Hunter; title: Integrates the University of Georgia; title: Charlayne Hunter Gault; title: 6 "We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard":; title: Black Women and the 1963 March on Washington; title: Dorothy I. Height; title: P A R T I I: Women, Leadershi, and Civil Rights; title: 7 "We Seek to Know in Order to Speak the Truth":; title: Nurturing the Seeds of Discontent-Septima P. Clark; title: and Participatory Leadership; title: Jacqueline A. Rouse; title: 8 African American Women in the Mississippi; title: Freedom Democratic Party; title: Vicki Crawford; title: 9 Anger, Memory, and Personal Power:; title: Fannie Lou Hamer and Civil Rights Leadership; title: Chana Kai Lee; title: PA R T I V: From Civil Rights to Black Power:; title: African American Women and Nationalism; title: 10 "Chronicle of a Death Foretold": Gloria Richardson,; title: the Cambridge Movement, and the Radical Black; title: Activist Tradition; title: Sharon Harley; title: 11 Black Women and Black Power: The Case of Ruby; title: Doris Smith Robinson and the Student Nonviolent; title: Coordinating Committee; title: Cynthia Griggs Fleming; title: 12 "Ironies of the Saint": Malcolm X, Black Women,; title: and the Price of Protection; title: Farah Jasmine Griffin; title: 13 "No One Ever Asks What a Man's Role in the; title: Revolution Is": Gender Politics and Leadership; title: in the Black Panther Party, 1966-71; title: Tracye A. Matthews; title: PA R T V: Law, Feminism, and Politics; title: 14 "Joanne Is You and Joanne Is Me": A Consideration of; title: African American Women and the "Free Joan Little"; title: Movement, 1974-75; title: Genna Rae McNeil; title: 15 From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee; title: Collective: Black Feminist Organizing,-1960-80; title: Duchess Harris; title: 16 The Civil Rights-Black Power Legacy: Black; title: Women Elected Officials at the Local, State,; title: and National Levels; title: Linda Faye Williams; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Permissions; title: Contributors; title: Index; title: All illustrations appear as a groupfollowing page 148..