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

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"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.
Subjects:
Womanpower Unlimited > History.
African American women political activists > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American women > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American women civil rights workers.
African American women political activists.
African American women > Social conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Race relations.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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