Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College, and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina

by Brown, Linda Beatrice
ISBN: 9781959104032
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Overview

The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter sit-In on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&T State University. The integration of public accommodations in Greensboro and many other cities followed.

Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College, and the civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina recalls a more complete story, illuminating what many historians have overlooked: that the first sit-In in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus; and without the women who sat down, marched, and were incarcerated in the hundreds from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-In effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro, might not have happened.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Brown, Linda Beatrice
  • ISBN: 9781959104032
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.55
  • Number Of Pages: 242
  • Publication Year: 2025
Language: English