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Pages: 351
Authors: Davis W. Houck
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-20 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Historians have long agreed that women—black and white—were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Davis W. Houck
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Presents thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle for civil rights was at its most intense. Many are published or transcribed f
Sisters in the Struggle
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Bettye Collier-Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and
My Soul Is a Witness
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Bettye Collier-Thomas
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A POWERFUL AND INSPIRING RECORD OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PERIODS IN AMERICA'S HISTORY, MY SOUL IS A WITNESS PRESENTS THE FULL HISTORIC SCOPE OF THE HARD-F
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Authors: Juan Williams
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Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights