Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Faith S. Holsaert ... [et at.]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
-
- 616 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252035577, 0252098870, 9780252098871, 9780252035579
- OCLC
- ocn964447087, ocn601330993
- Includes index.
- 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
Subjects
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
- African American women political activists -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.