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Title:

Throwing off the cloak of privilege : white Southern women activists in the Civil Rights Era / edited by Gail S. Murray ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.
Women political activists--Southern States--Biography.
Women, White--Southern States--Biography.
African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women political activists--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women, White--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern states.--Biography.
Southern States--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Murray, Gail Schmunk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-238) and index.

Contents:

White privilege, racial justice : women activists in Memphis / Gail S. Murray. Crusaders and clubwomen : Alice Norwood Spearman Wright and her women's network / Marcia G. Synnott -- Frances Freeborn Pauley : using autobiography and biography to interpret a white woman's activist identity / Kathryn L. Nasstrom -- Anne Braden and the "protective custody" of white southern womanhood / Catherine Fosl -- "How shall I sing the Lord's song?" : United Church Women confront racial issues in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s / Cherisse R. Jones -- Challenging the segregationist power structure in Little Rock : the Women's Emergency Committee to open our schools / Laura A. Miller -- Elite white female activism and civil rights in New Orleans / Shannon L. Frystak -- White privilege, racial justice : women activists in Memphis / Gail S. Murray.

Series:

Southern dissent

ISBN:

9780813027265 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813027268 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54371519

LCCN:

2004042553

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)