Research Catalog

Title

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi / Tiyi M. Morris.

Author

Morris, Tiyi Makeda

Publication

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xvi, 237 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom Riders, who were unjustly arrested and tortured in the Mississippi jails, Womanpower Unlimited expanded its activism to include programs such as voter registration drives, youth education, and participation in Women Strike for Peace. Womanpower Unlimited proved to be not only a significant organization with regard to civil rights activism in Mississippi, but also a spearhead movement for revitalizing Black women's social and political activism in the state. This study contributes to our understanding of how the civil rights movement was sustained in Mississippi through grassroots activism, and also foregrounds women's activism as an integral component of this leadership. In this process, Morris engages contemporary theoretical questions about leadership, support work, and gendered activism within the movement while demonstrating a broad human rights agenda"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Uniform Title

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.

Subjects

• African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century
• African American women > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century
• Womanpower Unlimited History
• Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century
• Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century
• African American women political activists > Mississippi > History > 20th century
• African American women civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: "Women are the humanizers of the struggle" : Black women's legacy of activism -- "It was just women who dared to dream" : the emergence of Womanpower Unlimited -- "You could just see things being accomplished" : the women who built the movement -- "'cause I love my people" : sustaining the people and the movement -- "We who believe in freedom" : interracial cooperation and peace activism -- "Welcome, ladies, to Magnolialand" : Womanpower and Wednesdays Women -- "When there was a need" : ministering to the people -- Conclusion: Women's power transformed : joining forces with the National Council of Negro Women -- Epilogue: "This woman's work" : activism in the post-civil rights Years.

Call Number

Sc E 15-296

ISBN

• 9780820347301
• 0820347302
• 9780820347318
• 0820347310
• 9780820347936 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014023162

OCLC

894557322

Author

Morris, Tiyi Makeda, author.

Title

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi / Tiyi M. Morris.

Publisher

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-296