Gender in the Civil Rights Movement

Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith

Introduction, Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith; Chapter 1 Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis: A Gendered Perspective, John A. Kirk; Chapter 2 Sex Machines and Prisoners of Love: Male Rhythm and Blues, Sexual Politics and the Black Freedom Struggle, Brian Ward; Chapter 3 “Dress modestly, neatly … as if you were going to church”: Respectability, Class and Gender in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Early Civil Rights Movement, Marisa Chappell, Jenny Hutchinson, Brian Ward; Chapter 4 Gender and Generation: Manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Peter J. Ling; Chapter 5 Women in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee: Ideology, Organizational Structure, and Leadership, Belinda Robnett; Chapter 6 The “Gun-Toting” Gloria Richardson: Black Violence in Cambridge, Maryland, Jenny Walker; Chapter 7 “It’s a Doggy-Dogg World”: Black Cultural Politics, Gangsta Rap and the “Post-Soul Man”, Eithne Quinn; Chapter 8 Revisiting the 1960s in Contemporary Fiction: “Where do we go from here?”, Sharon Monteith; Chapter 9 “The Struggle Continues”: Black Women in Congress in the 1990s, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson;