What new understandings of women's roles in the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) developed for you, now that you've read about women's participation, contributions, experiences and leadership?
Reference two things you learned about the CRM and women or gender such as events, individual women, or primary source documents, important developments or contributions or other examples (any mix of those) or more from your reading or viewing in the assigned materials in your response. Show familiarity with the reading, using quotations and specificity, especially with regard to the primary and secondary sources. Ware is a tertiary source–she's synthesized what other historians have written to provide a general overview.
Admiration is likely a response to what we've read about this week; add in analysis/explanation to your response as well. What did you learn from this week's reading?
WEEK 14: Women, Gender, Rights, in the 1950s: Domesticity Revisited?
Title Citation
Ruby Bridges Interview (8 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour Productions, 2010.
Dorothy Height Interview (10 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour Productions, 2010.
How did African American Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges did They Face? (Please read at least six primary sources from this important collection. If you read the discussion prompts first you may have an easier time identifying quotations to include in your posts.)
Gail S. Murray, How Did African American Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges Did They Face? (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2010).
“I Wanted the Whole World
To See”: Constructions of
Motherhood in the Death of
Emmett Till by Ruth
Feldman (Be advised: article includes discussion of difficult- to-read-about-racial violence and its consequences, perpetrated on a child.)
RUTH Feldstein,. “‘I Wanted the Whole World To See’: Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till.” In Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965, 86–110. Cornell University Press, 2000. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5rdvsk .8.
American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction Ch. 4, pp 100-103
Susan Ware: American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction
Week 14 Hive mind doc
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