Title: You must be from the North
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: African Americans, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, Community life, History, Political activity, Race relations, White Women, Women, White, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations, Women, united states, biography, African americans, tennessee, Memphis (tenn.), history, Women, political activity
Places: Memphis, Memphis (Tenn.), Tennessee
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F444.M59 A26 2009