Womanpower Unlimited and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi / Tiyi M. Morris.

"Provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom Riders, who were unjustly arrested and tortured in the Mississippi...

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Main Author: Morris, Tiyi Makeda (Author)
Language:English
Published: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Series:Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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Physical Description:xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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505 0 |a Introduction: "Women are the humanizers of the struggle" : Black women's legacy of activism -- "It was just women who dared to dream" : the emergence of Womanpower Unlimited -- "You could just see things being accomplished" : the women who built the movement -- "'cause I love my people" : sustaining the people and the movement -- "We who believe in freedom" : interracial cooperation and peace activism -- "Welcome, ladies, to Magnolialand" : Womanpower and Wednesdays Women -- "When there was a need" : ministering to the people -- Conclusion: Women's power transformed : joining forces with the National Council of Negro Women -- Epilogue: "This woman's work" : activism in the post-civil rights Years. 
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