ABSTRACT
A key cornerstone of the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and the 1960s, under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the father of the movement, is the collectivity of the struggle, men, women and children, wherein the masses come together in their fight against racism. While integration was a key concern in America during that earlier period for King, touching the lives of people all over the world was another reality, one that had promises of rocking the nation’s system to which people had become accustomed. Because of the prominence of women in the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks being a prime example of others like Mamie Till Mobley, Fannie Lou Hammer and Ella Baker, Africana Womanism is, indeed, appropriate for expounding on the role of women in the ongoing struggle for human rights.
