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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 : Scribner, [2001]
©2001

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  323.1 OLSON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  323.092 OLSON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  323.1196 OLS    DUE 04-26-23 Billed
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  323.1 OLSON    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  323.092 OLS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Display shelf  Simsbury Displays: Women's History Month 2024    On Display
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  323.092 OLSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  323.0922 OLSON    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  323.092 OLSON    Check Shelf
Description 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.
Contents 1. "Far more terrible for women" -- 2. "She has shaken this country" -- 3. "Getting them comfortable with rebellion" -- 4. Lighting the fuse -- 5. "There had to be a stopping place" -- 6. "Our leaders is just we ourself" -- 7. "She kept daring us to go further" -- 8. "The most daring of our leaders" -- 9. "Being white does not answer your problems" -- 10. "She never listened to a word" -- 11. "We are not going to take this anymore" -- 12. "The cobwebs are moving from my brain" -- 13. "I had never heard that voice before" -- 14. "Black and white together" -- 15. "A woman's war" -- 16. "we assumed we were equal" -- 17. "We can't deal with her" -- 18. Standing in the minefield -- 19. "We didn't come all this way for no two seats" -- 20. "This inevitable, horrible Greek tragedy" -- 21. The "woman question" -- 22. "we were asked to deny a part of ourselves" -- 23. "We got to keep moving".
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.
ISBN 0684850125
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