Women activists and the role of women in the American civil rights movement -- how women helped fight for racial justice in the American civil rights movement, and how the civil rights movement affected the role of women in America.
A gallery of pictures of women in the civil rights movement.
Daisy Bates, a newspaper publisher with her husband, was a key figure in integrating Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
A biography of Shirley Chisholm, black Congressman from New York, who worked for women's and minority rights.
Her support for revolutionary black activist George Jackson led to her arrest as a conspirator in the abortive attempt to free Jackson from a Marin County, California, courtroom. Biography and links to other Net resources including articles by Davis and interviews with Davis.
Fannie Lou Hamer - a biography of the civil rights movement pioneer from Mississippi.
A profile of Fannie Lou Hamer, key figure in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Biography of Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, and long-time head of the National Council of Negro Women, NCNW.
Quotes by Dorothy Height - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Quotes by Coretta Scott King - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
About.com's Guide to Black History, Jessica McElrath, has many resources on the civil rights movement, including some of the women involved in that struggle.
The entry page includes an extensive essay about women and the civil rights movement and the bibliography should be useful to researchers, too. A middle school curriculum unit exploring literature of Eloise Greenfield.
In 1970, radical activists Maxine Williams and Pamela Newman explain why black women need women's liberation.
Author Scott Macphail, in this 1999 article from
African American Review,, analyzes the role of June Jordan in 1960s/1970s politics and intellectual life through several standard theories, and finds she doesn't quite fit the mold.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Dr. Mary Frances Berry, October 10, 1996, on issues of the burnings of black churches and the larger racial problem in the U.S.
Dorothy Height has been the head of the National Council of Negro Women for 41 years, and has worked for racial justice for more than 60 years. Gwen Ifill nterviewed her in a segment of the PBS Online NewsHour that aired on July 17, 2003 -- here's the transcript, or you can listen to audio or view the video segment on your own computer.
