How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Belinda Robnett

Book Overview

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195114914
• ISBN13: 9780195114911
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"