Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina PDF
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r KViWf 4 Our Separate Ways OUR SEPARATE WAYS Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina CHRISTINA GREENE The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London © 2005 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Barbara E. Williams Set in Quadraat and Scala type by BW&A Books, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Parts of this book have been reprinted with permission in revised form from the following works: Christina Greene, "'In the Best Interest of the Total Com- munity'?: Women-in-Action and the Politics of Race and Class in a Southern Community, i968-1972," Frontiers I6, no. 2/3 (I996): 190-217, University of Nebraska Press, and "'... The New Negro Ain't Scared No More!': Black Women's Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown," in From the Grass-Roots to the Supreme Court: Brown v.B oard of Education and American Democracy, edited by Peter Lau (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greene, Christina, i95i- Our separate ways : women and the Black freedom movement in Durham, North Carolina / Christina Greene. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2938-2 (cloth : alk. paper)-ISBN 0-8078-5600-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) i. Durham (N.C.)-Race relations. 2. African Americans-Civil rights-North Carolina-Durham-History-2oth century. 3. Civil rights movements- North Carolina-Durham-History-2oth century. 4. African American women-North Carolina-Durham-Political activity-History-2oth century. 5.W omen, White-North Carolina-Durham-Political activity-History- 2oth century. I. Title F264.D9G74 2005 323.II96'0730756563-dc22 2004024382 cloth 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 paper 09 08 07 o6 05 5 4 3 2 i For Joan and For my father Contents Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xvii Introduction i 1 If You Want Anything Done, Get the Women and the Children: Fighting Jim Crow in the 194os and 1950s 7 2 A Few Still, Small Voices: Black Freedom and White Allies in the Doldrums 33 3 The Sisters behind the Brothers: The Durham Movement, i957-1963 63 4 The Uninhibited Voice of the Poor: African American Women and Neighborhood Organizing io5 5 Someday .... the Colored and White Will Stand Together: Organizing Poor Whites i3q 6 I Can't Catch Everybody, but I Can Try: Black Power Politics, the Boycott, and the Decline of Neighborhood Organizing i65 7 Visiting Ladies: Interracial Sisterhood and the Politics of Respectability 195 Conclusion 219 Epilogue 225 Notes 231 Bibliography 317 Index 341
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