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Beschreibung
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.

In Sisters in the Struggle we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party, and won, and Septima Clark, who created a network of "Citizenship Schools" to teach poor Black men and women to read and write and help them to register to vote. We learn of Black women's activism in the Black Panther Party where they fought the police, as well as the entrenched male leadership, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where the behind-the-scenes work of women kept the organization afloat when it was under siege. It also includes first-person testimonials from the women who made headlines with their courageous resistance to segregation -- Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height.

This collection represents the coming of age of African American women's history and presents new stories that point the way to future study.

Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.

In Sisters in the Struggle we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party, and won, and Septima Clark, who created a network of "Citizenship Schools" to teach poor Black men and women to read and write and help them to register to vote. We learn of Black women's activism in the Black Panther Party where they fought the police, as well as the entrenched male leadership, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where the behind-the-scenes work of women kept the organization afloat when it was under siege. It also includes first-person testimonials from the women who made headlines with their courageous resistance to segregation -- Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height.

This collection represents the coming of age of African American women's history and presents new stories that point the way to future study.

Über den Autor
Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780814716038
ISBN-10: 0814716032
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bettye Collier–thomas
V.p. Franklin
Redaktion: Collier-Thomas, Bettye
Franklin, V. P.
Hersteller: New York University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Bettye Collier-Thomas (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2001
Gewicht: 0,517 kg
Artikel-ID: 105730808