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Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege - White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era (Hardcover)
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Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege - White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Dissent
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While playing the southern lady for the white political
establishment, thousands of mostly middle-class, middle-aged,
married white women become grassroots activists in America's civil
rights movement, sometimes at the cost of friendships, status,
economic security, and family support. The original essays in this
collection tell who these women were, why they became committed to
racial justice and equal opportunity, and how they organized to
change southern society. The women worked within a range of
national and local institutions, both segregated and biracial.
Their stories, largely unknown, span half of the 20th century from
the New Deal to the early 1970s and took place across the South
from Louisville to New Orleans. Some of them brought years of
experience in church groups or welfare organizations to the
movement; others became converts only when local crises forced them
to examine the hypocrisy and privilege of their lives. Some couched
their civil rights arguments in terms of their maternal identity
and a belief that racial discrimination defiled the world in which
they reared their children. Many shared a basic optimism about the
willingness of white southerners to change. And many were well
aware that their leisure to pursue reform activities often was made
possible by the black women who managed their households, cooked
their food, and tended their children. Four essays profile specific
women and their personal strategies for attacking prejudice and
discrimination. The remaining essays focus on particular
organizations, such as the YWCA, United Church Women, the Women's
Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, and the Saturday Luncheon
Club, a group whose name belied its subversive intentions. Using
autobiography, oral history, news accounts, organization papers,
and personal letters, the contributors show the importance of
female support networks, the influence of African American mentors,
and the social ostracism that resulted from defying white
supremacy. In the ongoing struggle for human dignity and a voice in
American life, this book adds a new and necessary dimension to our
understanding of both biracial activism and white anti-racism.
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