Strategic Sisterhood (eBook)

The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle

Rebecca Tuuri (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
338 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3891-1 (ISBN)

Infos

When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings. Height's careful tactics and quiet determination come to the fore in this first history of the NCNW, the largest black women's organization in the United States at the height of the civil rights, Black Power, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.Offering a sweeping view of the NCNW's behind-the-scenes efforts to fight racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century, Rebecca Tuuri examines how the group teamed with U.S. presidents, foundations, and grassroots activists alike to implement a number of important domestic development and international aid projects. Drawing on original interviews, extensive organizational records, and other rich sources, Tuuri's work narrates the achievements of a set of seemingly moderate, elite activists who were able to use their personal, financial, and social connections to push for change as they facilitated grassroots, cooperative, and radical activism.

Autor

Rebecca Tuuri is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones, 1 map, 1 graph, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: activist mothering in the civil rights movement • Alpha Kappa Alpha in the civil rights movement • black American women at the 1975 International Women's Year • black American women in international development • Black Feminism • black women and racial uplift in the twentieth century • black women and the U.S. Agency for International Development • black women in the civil rights movement • bridge leadership in the civil rights movement • child care at Okolona College • civil rights movement in Mississippi • Delta Sigma Theta in the civil rights movement • Dorothy Height • Dorothy Height quoted in the Moynihan Report • Edith Sampson • Fannie Lou Hamer • Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm • Frances Beal • history of the National Council of Negro Women • history of the NCNW • interpersonal activism in the civil rights movement • Mary McLeod Bethune • Merble Reagon • middle class women in the civil rights movement • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party • National Archives for Black Women's History • neoliberal international aid • Operation Sisters United • origins of NCNW's twinning approach • othermothering in the civil rights movement • Polly Cowan • Prathia Wynn • Project Womanpower • sexism in the black freedom struggle • sexism in the civil rights movement • the Percy Amendment • Turnkey III • Unita Blackwell • U.S. women in the black freedom struggle • U.S. women's activism in Botswana • U.S. women's activism in Lesotho • U.S. women's activism in Swaziland • Wednesdays in Mississippi • Womanism • women and black nationalism • women at the March on Washington • women in Head Start • women in housing activism • women in the Civil Rights Movement • women in the War on Poverty
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3891-6 / 1469638916
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3891-1 / 9781469638911