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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Whip of the Whirlwind
PART I: Laying the Groundwork: African American Women and Civil Rights Before 1950
1 “Closed Doors”: Mary McLeod Bethune on Civil Rights
Introduction by Elaine M. Smith
Mary McLeod Bethune
2 For the Race in General and Black Women in Particular: The Civil Rights Activities of African American Women’s Organizations, 1915–50
V. P. Franklin and Bettye Collier-Thomas
3 Behind-the-Scenes View of a Behind-the-Scenes Organizer: The Roots of Ella Baker’s Political Passions
Barbara Ransby
PART II: Personal Narratives
4 “Tired of Giving In”: The Launching of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
5 “Heirs to a Legacy of Struggle”: Charlayne Hunter Integrates the University of Georgia
Charlayne Hunter Gault
6 “We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard”: Black Women and the 1963 March on Washington
Dorothy I. Height
PART III: Women, Leadership, and Civil Rights
7 “We Seek to Know … in Order to Speak the Truth”: Nurturing the Seeds of Discontent—Septima P. Clark and Participatory Leadership
Jacqueline A. Rouse
8 African American Women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Vicki Crawford
9 Anger, Memory, and Personal Power: Fannie Lou Hamer and Civil Rights Leadership
Chana Kai Lee
PART IV: From Civil Rights to Black Power: African American Women and Nationalism
10 “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”: Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge Movement, and the Radical Black Activist Tradition
Sharon Harley
11 Black Women and Black Power: The Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Cynthia Griggs Fleming
12 “Ironies of the Saint”: Malcolm X, Black Women, and the Price of Protection
Farah Jasmine Griffin
13 “No One Ever Asks What a Man’s Role in the Revolution Is”: Gender Politics and Leadership in the Black Panther Party, 1966–71
Tracye A. Matthews
PART V: Law, Feminism, and Politics
14 “Joanne Is You and Joanne Is Me”: A Consideration of African American Women and the “Free Joan Little” Movement, 1974–75
Genna Rae McNeil
15 From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee Collective: Black Feminist Organizing, 1960–80
Duchess Harris
16 The Civil Rights–Black Power Legacy: Black Women Elected Officials at the Local, State, and National Levels
Linda Faye Williams
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
Contributors
Index
All illustrations appear as a group following page 148.
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