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Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 Hardcover - 2009

by Shannon Frystak


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In Our Minds on Freedom, Shannon Frystak explores the roles women played in civil rights activism in Louisiana from the 1920s through the 1960s. Women in Louisiana led unions and civil rights organizations and agitated for voting rights and equal treatment in public and private arenas. Black and white women worked together to organize the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott, which inspired the famous Montgomery bus boycott two years later; alter the system of unequal education throughout the state; and integrate New Orleans schools after the 1954 Brown decision. Frystak vividly describes the dangers women faced hosting civil rights workers, teaching in Freedom Schools, and canvassing for voter registration. As Frystak shows, the civil rights movement allowed women to step out of their prescribed roles as wives, mothers, and daughters and become actors--even leaders--in a social structure largely dominated by men. Our Minds on Freedom is a welcome addition to the literature of the civil rights movement and will intrigue those interested in African American history, women's history, Louisiana, or the U.S. South.

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  • Title Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967
  • Author Shannon Frystak
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780807134931 / 0807134937
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women civil rights workers, African Americans - Civil rights - Louisiana
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009013860
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

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Citations

  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/08/2010, Page 18

About the author

Shannon Frystak is professor of history at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.
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