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The first comprehensive history of the vital role womenboth black and whiteplayed in the civil rights movement.
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is dueto the bold women who were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement. From the Montgomery bus boycott to the lunch counter sit-ins to the Freedom Rides, Lynne Olson skillfully tells the long-overlooked story of the extraordinary women who were among the most fearless, resourceful, and tenacious leaders of the civil rights movement.
Freedoms Daughters includes portraits of more than sixty womenmany until now forgotten and some never before written aboutfrom key figures like Ida B. Wells, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Baker, and Septima Clark to some of the smaller players who represent the hundreds of women who each came forth to do her own small part and who together ultimately formed the mass movements that made the difference. Freedoms Daughters puts a human face on the civil rights struggleand shows that that face was often female.
Author: Lynne Olson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/05/2002
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.56w x 1.32d
ISBN: 9780684850139
Language: English
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