In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957

by Merline Pitre

Book Overview

African American women have played significant roles in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality, but relatively little is known about many of these leaders and activists.

Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless black women who were the backbone of the struggle in local communities across the country. At the local level women helped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603441999
• ISBN13: 9781603441995
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"