ABSTRACT

In a new anthology of essays, an international group of scholars examines the powerful interaction between gender and race within the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Gender and the Civil Rights Movement

chapter |24 pages

Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis: A Gendered Perspective

chapter |27 pages

Sex Machines and Prisoners of Love: Male Rhythm and Blues, Sexual Politics and the Black Freedom Struggle

chapter |32 pages

“Dress modestly, neatly … as if you were going to church” 1 : Respectability, Class and Gender in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Early Civil Rights Movement

Gender in the Civil Rights Movement

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter |24 pages

Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis: A Gendered Perspective

chapter |27 pages

Sex Machines and Prisoners of Love: Male Rhythm and Blues, Sexual Politics and the Black Freedom Struggle

chapter |32 pages

“Dress modestly, neatly … as if you were going to church” 1 : Respectability, Class and Gender in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Early Civil Rights Movement

chapter |29 pages

Gender and Generation: Manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

chapter |38 pages

Women in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee: Ideology, Organizational Structure, and Leadership

chapter |17 pages

The “Gun-Toting” Gloria Richardson: Black Violence in Cambridge, Maryland

chapter |27 pages

“It's a Doggy-Dogg World”: Black Cultural Politics, Gangsta Rap and the “Post-Soul Man”

chapter |24 pages

Revisiting the 1960s in Contemporary Fiction: “Where do we go from here?”

chapter |22 pages

“The Struggle Continues”: Black Women in Congress in the 1990s