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Article: Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights--Black Power Movement.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 363. $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-1603-2.)
Sisters in the Struggle contains sixteen essays on African American women's activism and politics during the twentieth century, although, as the tide signals, the bulk of the volume concentrates on the 1950s and 1960s. Generally, there are two types of essays: reprises or expansions of recently published scholarship (such as biographical essays by Cynthia Griggs Fleming on Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Chana Kai Lee on Fannie Lou Hamer), and essays that preview new or forthcoming work (Sharon Harley on the ...