Our Minds on Freedom : Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967.
Title:
Our Minds on Freedom : Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967.
Author:
Frystak, Shannon.
ISBN:
9780807136621
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CIVIL RIGHTS TIMELINE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MAY THE DAY HASTEN: Louisiana Women and Early Struggles for Racial Justice -- 2. SUBVERSIVE WOMEN: Interracial Alliances -- 3. "HARDLY THE SOUTHERN LADY": Boycotts and the Vote -- 4. LITTLE ROCK COMES TO NEW ORLEANS: Louisiana's School Desegregation Crisis, 1959-1962 -- 5. THE SIT- INS -- 6. THE FREEDOM RIDES AND THE END OF THE BELOVED COMMUNITY IN NEW ORLEANS -- 7. WOMEN IN THE FIELD I: The Voter Education Project in Rural Louisiana, 1962-1964 -- 8. WOMEN IN THE FIELD II: Armed Resistance and the Pursuit of Local Leadership,1965-1967 -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Our Minds on Freedom examines the role of women as organizers and leaders in the black struggle for equality in Louisiana. Using gender as a basic organizing principle, in combination with other systems of inequality-race and class-it challenges the notion that "men led, women organized," and places female activism, regardless of gendered expectations, at the center. The author concludes that women were not passive participants in the Louisiana civil rights movement, but leaders and heroines in their own right.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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