You must be from the North
Subtitle: Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement
By: Kimberly K. Little.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781604732283
Subjects: Women, White -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century; Women, White -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century; Community life -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.