Legacies: African-American Female Pioneers

by Debra Smith

Book Overview

Legacies: African-American Female Pioneers is a collection of life stories of women who lived through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s while residing in Charlotte, North Carolina. By sharing their stories of activism in the face of social and institutional racism, readers learn how women fought for freedom and equality in America.

Chapters One and Two of the book introduce the women in the context and history of the era in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516587766
• ISBN13: 9781516587766
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"