Copyright Date:
2001
Edition Date:
2002
Release Date:
02/05/02
Pages:
460 pages
ISBN:
0-684-85013-3
ISBN 13:
978-0-684-85013-9
Dewey:
920
LCCN:
00041306
Dimensions:
22 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist
Journalist Olson, coauthor of The Murrow Boys (1996), describes some of the dozens of women, black and white, who made major contributions to the struggle for civil rights. Introductory chapters address slavery and abolitionism, activists and their organizations (such as Ida B. Wells and the National Association for Colored Women), New Deal-era leaders (including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Lillian Smith), and local organizers of the post-World War II period. Fifteen of the book's 24 chapters describe the years from the Montgomery bus boycott to the March on Selma, discussing familiar heroes (for example Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Viola Liuzzo) but also lesser-known contributors (Jo Ann Robinson, Virginia Foster Durr, Juliette Morgan, and Jane Stembridge). The closing chapters consider the issues of race and gender that split the Movement in the late 60s, and then cover more recent decades. An essential corrective to most contemporary journalism's exclusive focus on male Movement leaders.
Kirkus Reviews
<p>Giving credit where it is long overdue, Olson makes a welcome addition to civil-rights literature.</p>
Bibliography Index/Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.
The first comprehensive history of the vital role women—both black and white—played in the civil rights movement.
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due—to the bold women who were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement. From the Montgomery bus boycott to the lunch counter sit-ins to the Freedom Rides, Lynne Olson skillfully tells the long-overlooked story of the extraordinary women who were among the most fearless, resourceful, and tenacious leaders of the civil rights movement.
Freedom's Daughters includes portraits of more than sixty women—many until now forgotten and some never before written about—from key figures like Ida B. Wells, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Baker, and Septima Clark to some of the smaller players who represent the hundreds of women who each came forth to do her own small part and who together ultimately formed the mass movements that made the difference. Freedom's Daughters puts a human face on the civil rights struggle—and shows that that face was often female.
Contents
Preface
1. "Far More Terrible for Women"
2. "She Has Shaken This Country"
3. "Getting Them Comfortable with Rebellion"
4. Lighting the Fuse
5. "There Had to Be a Stopping Place"
6. "Our Leaders Is Just We Ourself"
7. "She Kept Daring Us to Go Further"
8. "The Most Daring of Our Leaders"
9. "Being White Does Not Answer Your Problems"
10. "She Never Listened to a Word"
11. "We Are Not Going to Take This Anymore"
12. "The Cobwebs Are Moving from My Brain"
13. "I Had Never Heard That Voice Before"
14. "Black and White Together"
15. "A Woman's War"
16. "We Assumed We Were Equal"
17. "We Can't Deal with Her"
18. Standing in the Minefield
19. "We Didn't Come All This Way for No Two Seats"
20. "This Inevitable, Horrible Greek Tragedy"
21. The "Woman Question"
22. "We Were Asked to Deny a Part of Ourselves"
23. "We Got to Keep Moving"
Epilogue
Abbreviations for Sources
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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