Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965

[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight. --Julian Bond

. . . remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement. --Manning Marable

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.

Author: Vicki L. Crawford
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/22/1993
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780253208323

About the Author

VICKI L. CRAWFORD is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. JACQUELINE ANNE ROUSE, Associate Professor at Morehouse College and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Negro History, is the author of Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer. BARBARA WOODS is Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Hampton University.