Women in the Civil Rights Movement Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941}}}1965 [Paperback]

[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America.... It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight. Julian Bond

... remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement. Manning Marable

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.

VICKI L. CRAWFORD is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. JACQUELINE ANNE ROUSE, Associate Professor at Morehouse College and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Negro History, is the author of Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer. BARBARA WOODS is Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Hampton University.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EDITORS INTRODUCTION
1. Men Led, but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta, by Charles Payne
2. Beyond the Human Self: Grassroots Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Vicki Crawford
3. Is This Amer? Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, by Mamie E. Locke
4. Civil Rights Women: A Source for Doing Womanist Theology, by Jacquelyn Grant
5. Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy, by Carol Mueller
6. Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Fair Burks
7. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights, by Grace Jordan McFadden
8. Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, 1939-1957, by Barbara A. Woods
9. Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement, by Annette K. Brock
10. The Women of Highlander, by Donna Langston
11. The South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, 1957-1961, by Sandra B. OledendorlÃÝ