Our Separate Ways

Informationen zum Autor Christina Greene is associate professor of history in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lived in Durham for twelve years, where she directed the Duke-University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women and worked for the Institute for Southern Studies. Klappentext In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Greene documents how low-income black women played a powerful role in shaping the struggle for black freedom across several generations in Durham, N.C. Zusammenfassung Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women! low-income as well as more affluent! shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham! North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized! more militant! and more numerous than their male counterparts.

Klappentext

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Greene documents how low-income black women played a powerful role in shaping the struggle for black freedom across several generations in Durham, N.C.

Zusammenfassung
Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts.