Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement /

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Author / Creator:Bell, Janet Dewart, author.
Imprint:New York : The New Press, 2018.
Description:224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.
HISTORY / African American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics.
African American women -- Civil rights.
African American women civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11594245
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ISBN:9781620973356
1620973359
9781620973363
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:"Through wide-ranging conversations with nine African American women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices"--

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