Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Table of contents

• Sisters in the Struggle i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction - In the Whip of the Whirlwind 1
• Part I - Laying the Groundwork African American Women and Civil Rights Before 1950 9
• Chapter 1 - “closed Doors” Mary Mcleod Bethune on Civil Rights 11
• Chapter 2 - For the Race in General and Black Women in Particular the Civil Rights Activities of African American Women's Organizations, 1915–50 21
• Chapter 3 - Behind-The-Scenes View of a Behind-The-Scenes Organizer the Roots of Ella Baker's Political Passions 42
• Part II - Personal Narratives 59
• Chapter 4 - “tired of Giving In” the Launching of the Montgomery Bus Boycott 61
• Chapter 5 - “heirs to a Legacy of Struggle” Charlayne Hunter Integrates the University of Georgia 75
• Chapter 6 - “we Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard” Black Women and the 1963 March on Washington 83
• Part III - Women, Leadership, and Civil Rights 93
• Chapter 7 - “we Seek to Know… in Order to Speak the Truth” Nurturing the Seeds of Discontent—séptima P. Clark and Participatory Leadership1 95
• Chapter 8 - African American Women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 121
• Chapter 9 - Anger, Memory, and Personal Power Fannie Lou Hamer and Civil Rights Leadership 139
• Part IV - From Civil Rights to Black Power African American Women and Nationalism 171
• Chapter 10 - “chronicle of a Death Foretold” Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge Movement, and the Radical Black Activist Tradition 174
• Chapter 11 - Black Women and Black Power the Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 197
• Chapter 12 - “ironies of the Saint” Malcolm X, Black Women, and the Price of Protection 214
• Chapter 13 - “no One Ever Asks What a Man's Role in the Revolution Is” Gender Politics and Leadership in the in the Revolution Is” 230
• Part V - Law, Feminism, and Politics 257
• Chapter 14 - “joanne is You and Joanne is Me” a Consideration of African American Women and the “free Joan Little” Movement, 1974–75 259
• Chapter 15 - From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee Collective Black Feminist Organizing, 1960–80 280
• Chapter 16 - The Civil Rights–black Power Legacy Black Women Elected Officials at the Local, State, and National Levels 306
• Selected Bibliography 333
• Permissions 343
• Contributors 345
• Index 349

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