Women civil rights leaders
By: by Anne Wallace Sharp
Series: Lucent Library of Black history
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420508802
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; History; Juvenile literature; Biography; Women civil rights workers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unsung heroines; title: Ida Wells and the campaign against lynching; title: Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women; title: Septima Clark and the citizenship schools; title: The women of the Montgomery bus boycott; title: Daisy Bates and school desegregation; title: Ella Baker, the spiritual leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; title: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.