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• ISBN: 0807829382
• ISBN: 9780807829387
• ISBN: 0807856002
• ISBN: 9780807856000
• Physical Description: xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
• Copyright: ©2005

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1996.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

If you want anything done, get the women and the children : fighting Jim Crow in the 1940s and 1950s -- A few still, small voices : black freedom and white allies in the doldrums -- The sisters behind the brothers : the Durham movement, 1957-1963 -- The uninhibited voice of the poor : african american women and neighborhood organizing -- Someday -- the colored and white will stand together : organizing poor whites -- I can't catch everybody, but I can try : black power politics, the boycott, and the decline of neighborhood organizing -- Visiting ladies : interracial sisterhood and the politics of respectability.

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