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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi

Morris, Tiyi Makeda

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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 jails, Womanpower Unlimited expanded its activism to include programs such as voter registration drives, youth education, and participation in Women Strike for Peace. Womanpower Unlimited proved to be not only a significant organization with regard to civil rights activism in Mississippi, but also a spearhead movement for revitalizing Black women's social and political activism in the state. This study contributes to our understanding of how the civil rights movement was sustained in Mississippi through grassroots activism, and also foregrounds women's activism as an integral component of this leadership. In this process, Morris engages contemporary theoretical questions about leadership, support work, and gendered activism within the movement while demonstrating a broad human rights agenda\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Subject: 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. / Mississippi Race relations History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780820347301, 0820347302, 9780820347318, 0820347310

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.93.M6 M665 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE