Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College And The Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Brown, Linda Beatrice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988893703 ISBN 13: 9780988893702

Publisher: Women and Wisdom Foundation Inc, 2013

Synopsis

The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&T State University. Significantly, the integration of public accommodations of that city and many cities followed. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement recalls a more complete story, illuminating what historians overlooked: that the first Sit-in in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus, and without hundreds of women who sat down, marched and were incarcerated from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-in effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro and even other cities, might not have succeeded.

About this edition

• Publisher: Women and Wisdom Foundation Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0988893703
• ISBN 13: 9780988893702
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230