Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement

by Brown, Linda Beatrice
ISBN: 9780988893702
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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. Significantly, the integration of public accommodations of that city and many cities followed. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement recalls a more complete story, illuminating what historians overlooked: that the first Sit-in in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus, and without hundreds of women who sat down, marched and were incarcerated from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-in effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro and even other cities, might not have succeeded.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Brown, Linda Beatrice
  • ISBN: 9780988893702
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.52
  • Number Of Pages: 230
  • Publication Year: 2013
Language: English