Freedom's Daughters: the Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. (BIBR recommends).Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson Touchstone Books, January 2002, $16.00, ISBN 0-684-85013-3 Freedom's Daughters fills a hole in history by informing readers about little-known but powerful African-American women and their key roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Readers learn that a woman named Pauli Murray actually led the first sit-in, Mary White Ovington Mary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York - died July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.[1] helped to organize the NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. in 1909, and Rosa Parks was involved in the Civil Rights Movement years before the Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, against Segregation policies on the city's public buses. It was nine years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would change the nation forever. . Other civil rights heroines who get their due include Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Septima Clark. |
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