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Greene, Christina

Greene, Christina

Olivia Raney Local History

Adult Non-Fiction

Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change.
Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings.
Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

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eBook

eBook

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

323.1196 GREENE RR-VOICES

Wake County Public Libraries

Olivia Raney Local History

9780807856000

2005
2006

The University of North Carolina Press
University of North Carolina Press

grouped_work

African American women -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations
Women, White -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century

Our Separate Ways Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina

Our Separate Ways Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
Our separate ways : women and the Black freedom movement in Durham, North Carolina / Christina Greene

Our Separate Ways

Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina

African American women
African Americans
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
History
Multi-Cultural
Nonfiction
Political activity
Politics
Race relations
Sociology
Women, White