Table of Contents:
  • Contributions of African American women in the modern civil rights movement / Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre
  • Professional and organizational leaders: "A tremendous job to be done": African American women in the Virginia civil rights movement / Caroline S. Emmons
  • Making the invisible visible: African American women in the Texas civil rights movement / Yvonne Davis Frear
  • Black women in the Arkansas civil rights movement / Jeannie M. Whayne
  • Bridge leaders and foot soldiers in the Deep South: Black women in the Florida civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Maxine D. Jones
  • Black women in Alabama, 1954-1974 / Stefanie Decker
  • "Call the women": the tradition of African American female activism in Georgia during the civil rights movement / Clarissa Myrick-Harris
  • Women in the South Carolina civil rights movement / W. Marvin Dulaney
  • Black women activists in Mississippi during the civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Tiyi M. Morris
  • Black women in the North Carolina civil rights movement / Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
  • Southern Black women in the Louisiana civil rights era, 1954-1974 / Shannon L. Frystak
  • African American women in the Tennessee civil rights movement / Bobby L. Lovett.