Title Our separate ways : women and the Black freedom movement in Durham, North Carolina / Christina Greene

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations Series HeinOnline UNC Press law publications HeinOnline women and the law HeinOnline civil rights and social justice UNC Press law publications Women and the law Civil rights and social justice Contents If you want anything done, get the women and the children : fighting Jim Crow in the 1940s and 1950s -- A few still, small voices : black freedom and white allies in the doldrums -- The sisters behind the brothers : the Durham movement, 1957-1963 -- The uninhibited voice of the poor : african american women and neighborhood organizing -- Someday-- the colored and white will stand together : organizing poor whites -- I can't catch everybody, but I can try : black power politics, the boycott, and the decline of neighborhood organizing -- Visiting ladies : interracial sisterhood and the politics of respectability Summary Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 31, 2018) Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century African American women -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century Women, White -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. African American women -- Political activity African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Race relations Bürgerrecht Politisches Handeln Ethnische Beziehungen Bürgerrechtsbewegung Frau SUBJECT Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations Subject North Carolina -- Durham Durham, NC Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0807876372 9780807876374 0807829382 9780807829387 9798890867766

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