You must be from the North : Southern white women in the Memphis civil rights movement /
"You must be from the North, " was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009
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| Summary: | "You must be from the North, " was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between the two World Wars and typically omitted from the history of the civil rights movement. The women for the most part did not jeopardize their liv |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index |
| ISBN: | 1282485989 1604733519 9781282485983 9781604733518 |