Wednesdays in Mississippi -- 1964-1965
Title | Wednesdays in Mississippi -- 1964-1965 PDF eBook |
Author | Margery Gross |
Publisher | |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | African American women civil rights workers |
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Wednesdays in Mississippi
Title | Wednesdays in Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Z. Harwell |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2014-08-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1626744084 |
As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS). Employing an unusual and deliberately feminine approach, WIMS brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged, middle- and upper-class women to Mississippi to meet with their southern counterparts. Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), WIMS operated on the belief that the northern participants' gender, age, and class would serve as an entrée to southerners who had dismissed other civil rights activists as radicals. The WIMS teams' respectable appearance and quiet approach enabled them to build understanding across race, region, and religion where other overtures had failed. The only civil rights program created for women by women as part of a national organization, WIMS offers a new paradigm through which to study civil rights activism, challenging the stereotype of Freedom Summer activists as young student radicals and demonstrating the effectiveness of the subtle approach taken by "proper ladies." The book delves into the motivations for women's civil rights activism and the role religion played in influencing supporters and opponents of the civil rights movement. Lastly, it confirms that the NCNW actively worked for integration and black voting rights while also addressing education, poverty, hunger, housing, and employment as civil rights issues. After successful efforts in 1964 and 1965, WIMS became Workshops in Mississippi, which strived to alleviate the specific needs of poor women. Projects that grew from these efforts still operate today.
A Ministry of Presence
Title | A Ministry of Presence PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Poff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Wednesdays in Mississippi
Title | Wednesdays in Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Zerjav Harwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
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Wednesdays in Mississippi
Title | Wednesdays in Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Z. Harwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | African American women civil rights workers |
ISBN |
Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
Title | Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Tiyi Makeda Morris |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820347302 |
Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.
Freedom's Coming
Title | Freedom's Coming PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Harvey |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469606429 |
In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant expressive forms, and profound faith of believers in the region. Harvey explains how black and white religious folk within and outside of mainstream religious groups formed a southern "evangelical counterculture" of Christian interracialism that challenged the theologically grounded racism pervasive among white southerners and ultimately helped to end Jim Crow in the South. Moving from the folk theology of segregation to the women who organized the Montgomery bus boycott, from the hymn-inspired freedom songs of the 1960s to the influence of black Pentecostal preachers on Elvis Presley, Harvey deploys cultural history in fresh and innovative ways and fills a decades-old need for a comprehensive history of Protestant religion and its relationship to the central question of race in the South for the postbellum and twentieth-century period.