Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

The rarely heard stories of the brave African American women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.

Sisters in the Struggle tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women to the most important social reform in the United States in the twentieth century. Only recently have historians and other researchers begun to recognize black women's central role in the battle for racial and gender equality.

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