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Author Olson, Lynne.

Title Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 / Lynne Olson.

Imprint New York : Scribner, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  323.092275 O18f  2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-439) and index.
Contents 1. "Far more terrible for women" -- 2. "She has shaken this country" -- 3. "Getting them comfortable with rebellion" -- 4. Lighting the fuse -- 5. "There had to be a stopping place" -- 6. "Our leaders is just we ourself" -- 7. "She kept daring us to go further" -- 8. "The most daring of our leaders" -- 9. "Being white does not answer your problems" -- 10. "She never listened to a word" -- 11. "We are not going to take this anymore" -- 12. "The cobwebs are moving from my brain" -- 13. "I had never heard that voice before" -- 14. "Black and white together" -- 15. "A woman's war" -- 16. "We assumed we were equal" -- 17. "We can't deal with her" -- 18. Standing in the minefield -- 19. "We didn't come all this way for no two seats" -- 20. "This inevitable, horrible Greek tragedy" -- 21. The "woman question" -- 22. "We were asked to deny a part of ourselves" -- 23. "We got to keep moving."
Subject African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History.
African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History.
Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0684850125
Standard No. NLGGC 195388267

 
    
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