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Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
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Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
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by Christina Greene
Sales Rank : 600971
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press April 4, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807856002
ISBN-13: 978-0807856000
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"A valuable treatment of women's participation in the black freedom movement. . . . [Greene] sheds new light on how African American communities effectively challenged segregation and racial injustice." American Historical Review
"I know of no other work that so consistently details the importance of women's organizational networks to civil rights activism."
Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Product Description
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, 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. In the city long known as the "capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change.
Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings.
Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.
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