(Women in the Civil Rights Movement) helps break the gender linethat restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, andplaces them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement thatre-made America.... It is an invaluable resource which helps set historystraight." -- Julian Bond
..". remains one of the bestsingle sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in thedesegregation movement." -- Manning Marable
Rewrites thehistory of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Blackwomen.