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Title Throwing off the cloak of privilege : white Southern women activists in the Civil Rights Era / edited by Gail S. Murray ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Imprint Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.1196075 T416 2004    ---  Available
Description xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Southern dissent
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-238) and index.
Contents Dorothy Tilly and the fellowship of the concerned / Edith Holbrook Riehm -- Crusaders and clubwomen : Alice Norwood Spearman Wright and her women's network / Marcia G. Synnott -- Frances Freeborn Pauley : using autobiography and biography to interpret a white woman's activist identity / Kathryn L. Nasstrom -- Anne Braden and the "protective custody" of white southern womanhood / Catherine Fosl -- "How shall I sing the Lord's song?" : United Church Women confront racial issues in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s / Cherisse R. Jones -- Challenging the segregationist power structure in Little Rock : the Women's Emergency Committee to open our schools / Laura A. Miller -- Elite white female activism and civil rights in New Orleans / Shannon L. Frystak -- White privilege, racial justice : women activists in Memphis / Gail S. Murray.
Subject Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
Women political activists -- Southern States -- Biography.
Women, White -- Southern States -- Biography.
Southern States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women political activists -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women, White -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Murray, Gail Schmunk.
ISBN 0813027268 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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