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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi (Hardcover)
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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
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In "Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in
Mississippi," Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive
examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization
Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the
organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom
Riders who were unjustly arrested and then tortured in Mississippi
jails. Womanpower Unlimited expanded its activism to include
programs such as voter registration drives, youth education, and
participation in Women Strike for Peace. Womanpower Unlimited
proved to be not only a significant organization with regard to
civil rights activism in Mississippi but also a spearhead movement
for revitalizing black women's social and political activism in the
state.
"Womanpower Unlimited" elucidates the role that the group played in
sustaining the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Consistent
with the recent scholarship that emphasizes the necessity of a
bottom-up analysis for attaining a more comprehensive narrative of
the civil rights movement, this work broadens our understanding of
movement history in general by examining the roles of "local
people" as well as the leadership women provided. Additionally, it
contributes to a better understanding of how the movement developed
in Mississippi by examining some of the lesser-known women upon
whom activists, both inside and outside of the state, relied. Black
women, and Womanpower specifically, were central to movement
successes in Mississippi; and Womanpower's humanist agenda resulted
in its having the most diverse agenda of a Mississippi-based civil
rights organization.
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