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Author Sharp, Anne Wallace.

Title Women civil rights leaders / Anne Wallace Sharp.

Publication Info. Detroit : Lucent Books, 2013.
Description 1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series Lucent library of Black history
Gale virtual reference library
Lucent library of Black history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ch 1. Ida Wells and the campaign against lynching -- ch 2. Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women -- ch 3. Septima Clark and the citizenship schools -- ch 4. The women of the Montgomery bus boycott -- ch 5. Daisy Bates and school desegregation -- ch 6. Ella Baker, the spiritual leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- ch 7. Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Summary Places important topics in context so that readers will understand the connection between black history and the sweep of America's story. This volume covers African American women civil rights workers.
Note Description based on print version record.
GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Women civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Added Author Gale Group.
Other Form: Print version: Women civil rights leaders. Detroit : Lucent Books, 2013 9781420508802 (DLC) 2012028337
ISBN 9781420511055 (electronic book)
9781420508802 (hardcover)
1420508806
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