Harwell Debbie Z. Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 9781628460957

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Автор: Harwell Debbie Z.
Название: Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964
ISBN: 9781628460957
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Региональная и национальная история

Социальная дискриминация и неравенство

Гендерные исследования: женщины

ISBN-10: 1628460954
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 257
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 30.08.2014
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, frontispiece
Размер: 160 x 236 x 28
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Regional & national history,Social discrimination & inequality,Gender studies: women
Подзаголовок: Proper ladies working for radical change, freedom summer 1964
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS). Employing an unusual and deliberately feminine approach, WIMS brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged, middle- and upper-class women to Mississippi to meet with their southern counterparts. Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), WIMS operated on the belief that the northern participants gender, age, and class would serve as an entrée to southerners who had dismissed other civil rights activists as radicals. The WIMS teams respectable appearance and quiet approach enabled them to build understanding across race, region, and religion where other overtures had failed.The only civil rights program created for women by women as part of a national organization, WIMS offers a new paradigm through which to study civil rights activism, challenging the stereotype of Freedom Summer activists as young student radicals and demonstrating the effectiveness of the subtle approach taken by proper ladies. The book delves into the motivations for womens civil rights activism and the role religion played in influencing supporters and opponents of the civil rights movement. Lastly, it confirms that the NCNW actively worked for integration and black voting rights while also addressing education, poverty, hunger, housing, and employment as civil rights issues.After successful efforts in 1964 and 1965, WIMS became Workshops in Mississippi, which strived to alleviate the specific needs of poor women. Projects that grew from these efforts still operate today.

Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964, Harwell Debbie Z.