Five Essential Books on Women in the Early Civil Rights Movement
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While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it remain a mystery to many. And while Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and a few other notable men are revered as heroes, the women who fought back against Jim Crow are often left out of the narrative, leaving entire generations of Black and white Southern heroines unsung. Decades before boycotts and marches, these women built grassroots networks, organized groups with me
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