Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, an...

Reducere. DescriptionRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP image award, a groundbreak...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn about the civil rights activist Ella Baker in this informative, lyrical picture book from Sibert Honor winner Patricia Hruby Powel...

Reducere. After decades of segregation, women were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, the largest social upheaval since the end of the Civil War....

Literature on the civil rights movement has long highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries, such as Reverend Ma...

Reducere. They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through t...

Reducere. Mary Church Terrell was an icon in the civil rights movement, advocating for equality and social justice for black women through a lifetime of camp...

Reducere. "Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . and] how one generation of black women benef...

Reducere. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination ...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...

The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. T...

Reducere. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million peop...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - Dare To Dream: The True Story of a Civil Rights IconThere is no way to talk about the history of the United States of Ameri...

Reducere. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

Reducere. Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 19...

Reducere. In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across ...

A colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.Rosa Parks, often referred to as both "the first l...

Reducere. Including Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, read the stories of the amazing men an...

Reducere. Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents...

DescriptionA ragtag group of women protesting behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, "Hi Mom, Guess What " a...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights move...

Reducere. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws th...

Reducere. Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she devel...

Reducere. In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, th...

Reducere. Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. ...

DescriptionHonoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement ...

Reducere. Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make...

Reducere. The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement - Examines the l...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of...

On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women...

Reducere. The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power tells the powerful story of t...

Reducere. Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country's civil rights mov...

DescriptionSpain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed,...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

Reducere. Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil...

Reducere. "A political combat memoir like no other, suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt takes us to the front lines of the Votes for Women battlefields -- in...

Junior magazine 'Empowering books EVERY child should read' New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks,...

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the ...

Reducere. A comprehensive history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, from 1776 to 1965 Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizab...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told tr...

Modern Women is a celebration of some of the- influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. Fro...

Reducere. WILLA Literary AwardIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thir...

From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York--the "agitators" of the title--acclaimed au...

Reducere. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara RansbyOne of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential ...

Reducere. When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have di...

Contributor(s): Author: Blair ImaniForeword by: Tegan and SaraIllustrator: Monique LeAn inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and g...

Reducere. The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

Reducere. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanisha C. FordFrom the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyon...

Reducere. In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousa...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gary D. SchmidtIllustrator: Daniel MinterFrom celebrated author Gary D. Schmidt comes a picture book biography of a giant i...

Reducere. Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol...

Reducere. Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career...

Reducere. With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what bla...

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the are...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how bla...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

Reducere. Transform yourself and your organization through the power of servant leadership. In this informative and inspiring book, Mathew traces the true li...

Reducere. Three feminist, social activist Dominican poets speak for the disenfranchised against a background of Caribbean history.About author(s): Aida Carta...

Reducere. Exposing your students to the rich tapestry of African American history is now easier than ever! From the earliest civilizations in Africa, all the...

DescriptionA colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography about John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.John F. Kennedy ...

Reducere. Fifty years ago, the Third World Women's Alliance passionately insisted on interconnections among racism, sexism, and capitalism, inspiring radical...

Reducere. " WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. ""Riveting. Provides a hist...

Reducere. In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the ...