Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi (eBook)

Tiyi M. Morris (Autor)

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2015
264 Seiten
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-4793-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women’s social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.

Autor

TIYI M. MORRIS is an assistant professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at Ohio State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b&w photos
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American Government • American History • American Politics • Black women’s activism • civil rights literature • Civil Rights Movement • Community • Equality of education • Gender • International Peace Movement • Politics • poor blacks • Race • racial tension • Segregation • Southern civil rights • southern history • Southern locals • Women’s history
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-4793-0 / 0820347930
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4793-6 / 9780820347936