LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

1. Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta, by Charles Payne

2. Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Vicki Crawford

3. Is This Amer? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, by Mamie E. Locke

4. Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology, by Jacquelyn Grant

5. Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy, by Carol Mueller

6. Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Fair Burks

7. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights, by Grace Jordan McFadden

8. Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957, by Barbara A. Woods

9. Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement, by Annette K. Brock

10. The Women of Highlander, by Donna Langston

11. The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961, by Sandra B. Oledendorf

12. The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement, by Anne Standley

13. Women as Culture Carriers in the Civil Rights Movement: Fannie Lou Hamer, by Bernice Johnson Reagon

14. Behind the Scenes: Doris Derby, Denise Nicholas and the Free Southern Theater, by Clarissa Myrick-Harris

15. A Reluctant by Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Allida M. Black

16. Methodist Women Integrate Schools and Housing, 1952-1959, by Alice G. Knotts

17. And the Pressure Never Let Up: Black Women, White Women, and the Boston YWCA, 1918-1948, by Sharlene Voogd Cochrane

The Contributors

Index