Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620973363
- ISBN: 1620973359
- ISBN: 9781620973356
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Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Leah Chase -- Dr. June Jackson Christmas -- Aileen Hernandez -- Diane Nash -- Judy Richardson -- Kathleen Cleaver -- Gay McDougall -- Gloria Richardson -- Myrlie Evers. |
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Genre: | Biographies. Nonfiction. History. Biography. Biographies. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 323.1196 BELL 2018 | 39851001507095 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch University. She founded the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society series at the New York University School of Law and is the author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement and Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Womenâs Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century and the co-editor (with Vincent M. Southerland) of Carving Out a Humanity and Race, Rights, and Redemption (all published by The New Press). An award-winning television and radio producer, she lives in New York City.
Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch University. She founded the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society series at the New York University School of Law. An award-winning television and radio producer, she lives in New York City.