Black southern women and the civil rights movement
Southern Black Women in the modern Civil Rights movement played a major role during the Civil rights movement. Women all over were trying to make a difference in the areas that they lived in mainly the south. In Merline Pitre's and Bruce Glasrud book Black Southern Women and the Civil Rights Movement. They begin to discuss southern black women perspective on racism and their experiences during the modern civil rights movement. These women protested, participated in sit in and help change the inequality in the Deep South. The book is divided up in chapter specific to the states that racism affected in the south. The books discuss women experiences they faced during the civil rights movement in different states. The modern civil rights movement according to the authors is specified as the period of time in the U.S from 1954-1974. Jim Crow laws were intact, schools were segregated. Public ...view middle of the document...
Yvonne Davis Frear’s essay “African American women in Texas Civil Rights Movement highlights the contributions of African American women in Texas such as Lula B. White, Juanita Craft, Christia Adair, Barbara Jordan and other women. The essay strengthened the theme of the book their contributions of African American women was extremely ignored in the civil rights movement. Texas was considered a deeply segregated state and African American women wanted to help change the ties of segregation. As discussed earlier women in the civil rights movement were often overshadowed by their husband this was one of the issues within the movement. During this era women weren’t as open as men were in speaking out against civil rights for black people in this segregated America.
In chapter four and five we talk about Black women in the Florida civil rights movement era. Maxine Jones was a for better facilities for schools. She wanted sufficient playgrounds and better restrooms and cleaner cafeterias. Students in Florida State boycotted in Florida the wanted to desegregate the schools and wanted transportation for students. Female students helped to put an end to desegregation. Blacks mostly worked in agriculture. Fifty percent was said to work in domestic labor and in private homes. Blacks had accomplished a lot during this era but socially and economically things hadn’t changed. In Jacksonville two African American women were voted into the city council. Women became teachers and administrators, but women weren’t still seen as equal to their colleagues. As we enter further into the book Pitre and Glasrud goes into depth with information on women in the communities. Women sought to make change in the south. And goals were made collectively in community based organizations. Participation came in to place when the organization of freedom rides and boycotts on public transportation systems. These women encourage leadership and activism throughout their resistance. They wanted change and they continued promoting and participation in order to evoke change.
The book was edited by Bruce Glasrud and Merline Pitre the sources came from a collection of essays and interviews. In the finishing of Black southern women and the civil rights movement one can conclude that African A