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Author Little, Kimberly K

Title You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement / Kimberly K. Little
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: TRASHING JIM CROW: The Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Chapter 1 "YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH." "YES, NORTH MISSISSIPPI": Women and Direct Action Protests, 1955-1964; Chapter 2 "ALL ARE WORTHY": "Woman's Work" as a Catalyst for Civil Rights Reform; Chapter 3 "THE MESSAGE CAME ON A BEAM OF LIGHT": Women in Religious Groups; Chapter 4 RAISING A GENERATION THAT DOES NOT HATE: The 1968 Sanitation Strike and the Radicalizing of Memphis Activists
Summary "You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between the two World Wars and typically omitted from the history of the civil rights movement. The women for the most part did not jeopardize their liv
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index
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Subject Women, White -- Political activity -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
Women, White -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
Community life -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Community life
Race relations
Women, White
SUBJECT Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Tennessee -- Memphis
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008044232
ISBN 9781604733518
1604733519
1282485989
9781282485983