Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807856002 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I know of no other work that so consistently details the importance of women's organizational networks to civil rights activism." Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia, author of "For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer""A valuable treatment of women's participation in the black freedom movement. Greene sheds new light on how African American communities effectively challenged segregation and racial injustice." -- "American Historical Review"
They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, 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. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class", Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the su
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