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Author Olson, Lynne.

Title Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 / Lynne Olson.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002.
2001.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1 OL8    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  323.092 O52F    Check Shelf
Edition First Touchstone edition.
Description 460 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Scribner, c2001.
"A Touchstone book."
Contents "Far more terrible for women" -- "She has shaken this country" -- "Getting them comfortable with rebellion" -- Lighting the fuse -- "There had to be a stopping place" -- "Our leaders is just we ourself" -- "She kept daring us to go further" -- "The most daring of our leaders" -- "Being White does not answer your problems" -- "She never listened to a word" -- "We are not going to take this anymore" -- "The cobwebs are moving from my brain" -- "I had never heard that voice before" -- "Black and White together" -- "A woman's war" -- "We assumed we were equal" -- "We can't deal with her" -- Standing in the minefield -- "We didn't come all this way for no two seats" -- "This inevitable, horrible Greek tragedy" -- The "woman question" -- "We were asked to deny a part of ourselves" -- "We got to keep moving."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.
Subject African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History.
African American women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History.
Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1830-1970.
ISBN 0684850133 paperback
9780684850139 paperback
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