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Our Separate Ways [electronic resource]
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Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts.
| Title |
Our Separate Ways [electronic resource] : Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
| Creation Date |
2005 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. English |
| Content |
Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 If You Want Anything Done, Get the Women and the Children: Fighting Jim Crow in the 1940s and 1950s 2 A Few Still, Small Voices: Black Freedom and White Allies in the Doldrums 3 The Sisters behind the Brothers: The Durham Movement, 1957–1963 4 The Uninhibited Voice of the Poor: African American Women and Neighborhood Organizing 5 Someday, . . . the Colored and White Will Stand Together: Organizing Poor Whites 6 I Can't Catch Everybody, but I Can Try: Black Power Politics, the Boycott, and the Decline of Neighborhood Organizing 7 Visiting Ladies: Interracial Sisterhood and the Politics of RespectabilityConclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index |
| Extent |
1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010712394005171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- African American women.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements.
- Women, White.
- History.
- Political Science.
- African Americans Civil rights History 20th century North Carolina Durham
- Civil rights movements History 20th century North Carolina Durham
- African American women Political activity History 20th century Durham North Carolina
- Women, White History Political activity 20th Century Durham North Carolina
- United States Local History
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
- nne White women
- nne Afro-American women
- Women, African American
- nne Women, Negro
- Civil liberation movements
- Liberation movements (Civil rights)
- Protest movements (Civil rights)
- African Americans United States
- nne Afro-Americans
- Black Americans
- Colored people (United States)
- nne Negroes
- Durham (N.C.) Race relations.
- nnaa Durham, N.C.
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