Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 Frystak Shannon
Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 Frystak Shannon Literature on the civil rights movement has long highlighted the leadership of ministerial men…
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Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 Frystak Shannon
Literature on the civil rights movement has long highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries, such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X. In Our Minds on Freedom, Shannon Frystak explores the organizational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recent studies have begun to explore female participation in the struggle for racial justice, but women continue to be relegated to the margins of civil rights history.
She highlights a diverse group of courageous women who fought alongside their brothers and fathers, uncles and cousins, to achieve a more racially just Louisiana.From the Depression through World War II and the postwar years, Frystak shows, black women in Louisiana joined and led local unions and civil rights organizations, agitating for