Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | Fifty-two women - northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina - share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies cover early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and Freedom Rides; the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Movements in Alabama and Maryland; Black Power and anti-war activism. --publisher's description
pt. 1. Fighting for my rights : one SNCC woman's experience, 1961-1964 -- pt. 2. Entering troubled waters : sit-ins, the founding of SNCC, and the freedom rides, 1960-1963 -- pt. 3. Movement leaning posts : the heart and soul of the southwest Georgia movement, 1961-1963 -- pt. 4. Standing tall : the southwest Georgia movement, 1962-1963 -- pt. 5. Get on board : the Mississippi movement through the Atlantic City challenge, 1961-1964 -- pt. 6. Cambridge, Maryland : the movement under attack, 1961-1964 -- pt. 7. A sense of family : the National SNCC Office, 1960-1964 -- pt. 8. Fighting another day : the Mississippi movement after Atlantic City, 1964-1966 -- pt. 9. The constant struggle : the Alabama movement, 1963-1966 -- Black power : issues of continuity, change, and personal identity, 1964-1969 |
