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Author Bell, Janet Dewart, author.

Title Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement / Janet Dewart Bell.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations
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Note Includes index.
Contents Leah Chase -- Dr. June Jackson Christmas -- Aileen Hernandez -- Diane Nash -- Judy Richardson -- Kathleen Cleaver -- Gay McDougall -- Gloria Richardson -- Myrlie Evers.
Summary During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women were generally not in the headlines; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the larger public. Beyond Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Dorothy Height, most Americans, black and white alike, would be hard-pressed to name other leaders at the community, local, and national levels. In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for justice that resulted in profound social change, stories that remain important and relevant today. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Lighting the Fires of Freedom is a vital document for understanding the Civil Rights Movement and an enduring testament to the vitality of women's leadership during one of the most dramatic periods of American history.
Note Print version record.
Subject African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American women civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799481
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Added Title African American women in the civil rights movement
Other Form: Print version: Bell, Janet Dewart. Lighting the fires of freedom. New York : The New Press, [2018] 9781620973356 (DLC) 2017051225 (OCoLC)1004577976
ISBN 9781620973363 (electronic book)
1620973367 (electronic book)
9781620973356 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1620973359 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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