You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement

You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement / Kimberly K. Little.

"You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You M...

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Main Author: Little, Kimberly K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women, White > Political activity > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Tennessee > Memphis > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Tennessee > Memphis > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Community life > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Community life
Race relations
Women, White
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Tennessee > Memphis
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: TRASHING JIM CROW: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Chapter 1 "YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH." "YES, NORTH MISSISSIPPI": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964; Chapter 2 "ALL ARE WORTHY": "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform; Chapter 3 "THE MESSAGE CAME ON A BEAM OF LIGHT": Women in Religious Groups; Chapter 4 RAISING A GENERATION THAT DOES NOT HATE: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists.

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