How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
By Belinda Robnett.
Description
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness.Drawing heavily on interviews with actual participants in the A...
ISBN(s)
0195114914, 9780195114911
