Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Merline Pitre
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603449465
Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Bruce A. Glasrud,Merline Pitre Pdf
Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts. Although African American women mobili.