Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945 Sartain Lee
Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the…
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Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of African American activists in Louisiana and women's roles in the campaign for civil rights in the state. In the end, he argues, it was the women working behind the scenes in Louisiana's branches of the NAACP who were the most crucial factor in the organization's efficiency and survival.During the first half of the twentieth century--especially in the darkest days of the Great Depression, when membership waned and funds were scarce--a core group of women maintained Louisiana's NAACP. Fighting on the