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Women of the Civil Rights Movement (Women Who Dare) - Hardcover

Osborne, Linda Barrett

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9780764935480: Women of the Civil Rights Movement (Women Who Dare)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0764935488 ISBN 13: 9780764935480
Publisher: Pomegranate, 2006

Synopsis

Women Who Dare: Women of the Civil Rights Movement honors the contributions of many great women activists who may not have been in the most visible positions of the movement's leadership, but whose work was crucial to its survival, growth, and eventual success. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, inspiring mass action against segregation; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson started the boycott of Montgomery's buses by blanketing the city with flyers the morning after Parks' arrest; Ella Baker was the first person to run the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and to bring together the students who formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Daisy Bates kept the Little Rock Nine in Central High School; Diane Nash rallied the Freedom Riders when racist violence threatened to stop them in their tracks. These and many more daring women are discussed in the context of the key events of this violent and tumultuous period. Their stories are accompanied by dozens of historical photographs.

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Publisher
Pomegranate
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0764935488
ISBN 13 
9780764935480
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
61
Rating
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