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The first comprehensive history of the role of women in the civil rights movement, Freedom's Daughters fills a startling gap in both the literature of civil rights and of women's history. Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young, John Lewis, and other well-known leaders of the civil rights... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ella Baker: Add a description of this character.
- Pauli Murray
- Septima Clark
- Diane Nash
- Jo Ann Robinson
- Durr
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Lillian Smith
- Martin Luther King
- Johnson
- Casey Hayden
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Mccomb
- Kennedy
- Rosa Parks
- Jackson
- Greenwood
- Anne Braden
- Richardson
- Blackwell
- John Lewis
- Jim Crow
- Cason
- Bob Moses
- Brown
- Mary King
- Gray
- Bates
- Ovington
- Jessie
- Carter
- Claudette Colvin
- Carmichael
- Carl
- Thompson
- E. D. Nixon
- Sherrod
Setting & Locations edit
- Sncc
- Mississippi
- Virginia
- Washington
- Albany
- Atlanta
- Birmingham
- Georgia
- New York City
- Alabama
- America
- Selma
- Cambridge
- Montgomery
- United States
- Nashville
- Louisville
- White House
- Charleston
- Greensboro
- Atlantic City
- South Carolina
- Philadelphia
- City Hall
- Dorchester
- Winona
- Chicago
- Ruleville
- North Carolina
- Hattiesburg
- Head Start
- Farmville
- Boynton
- Germany
- Eastland
- Memphis
- Tennessee
- Indianola
- Raleigh
- Klan
- Masonic Temple
- Rock Hill
- New Orleans
- Oxford
- Boston
- Swarthmore
- Anniston
- Detroit
- Canton
First Sentence edit
IT WAS APRIL 22, 1944, A WARM Saturday in Washington, D.C.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lynne Olson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0684850125
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0684850125
Page Count: 464
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 323.092275
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › African Americans › History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › United States › Civil Rights
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Systems Of Government
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Civil Rights & Liberties
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Demography
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › African-American & Black
- Books › Law › Constitutional Law › Human Rights
- Books › History › Historical Study › Social History
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