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Author Brooks, Pamela E., 1952- author.

Title Boycotts, buses, and passes : Black women's resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa / Pamela E. Brooks
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents In the beginning : early resistance among enslaved and free women, 1721-1870 -- No wash or pass : institution building, migration, and protest, 1867-1918 -- When we were just girls : rural life challenges in Black belt Alabama and pre-apartheid South Africa, 1920s-1940s -- "My politics were influenced from the trade union" : raising political consciousness, 1930s-1940s -- Launching new networks : Black women organizing for change, 1940-1950 -- "Put my foot in the road and walked!" : Black women lead the Montgomery bus boycott, 1950-1961 -- "We will not ride!"--"We don't want passes!" : South African women rising in political movement, 1950-1960
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-291) and index
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Subject African American women -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Government, Resistance to -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Women, Black -- Political activity -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
Black people -- Civil rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
Government, Resistance to -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Black people -- Civil rights.
African American women -- Political activity.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Government, Resistance to.
Race relations.
Women, Black -- Political activity.
Schwarze Frau
Frauenbewegung
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject South Africa.
Southern States.
USA -- Südstaaten
Südafrika <Staat>
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613760734
1613760736