Gender in the Civil Rights MovementPeter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith Routledge, 2014 M03 5 - 288 pages In a new anthology of essays, an international group of scholars examines the powerful interaction between gender and race within the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action activism activists African American Baker Bates Bates's became black male black power black women Blues boycott Cambridge campaign church civil rights movement Congress continued critics cultural described early economic elected equality example experience father female fiction figure force formal Freedom gender ideals important Interview issues John Johnson King's later leaders leadership Little Rock lives majority March Martin Luther King masculinity mass matriarchy means MFDP middle-class misogyny Mississippi Montgomery moral mother NAACP Negro never nonviolent noted organization Parks participation particularly political popular position present Press protest race racial reflected relations relationship remained represented respectability responsibility Richardson role SCLC segregation sense sexual SNCC social soul South southern struggle studies success symbol tradition University violence vote woman York Young