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Author Bell, Janet Dewart, author.

Title Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement / Janet Dewart Bell.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2018.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1929944~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  323.1196073 BEL    AVAILABLE
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Description 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Leah Chase -- June Jackson Christmas -- Aileen Hernandez -- Diane Nash -- Judy Richardson -- Kathleen Cleaver -- Gay McDougall -- Gloria Richardson -- Myrlie Evers
Summary "Through wide-ranging conversations with nine African American women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Civil rights workers.
Women -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781620973356 (hardcover)
1620973359 (hardcover)
Standard No. 40028196785
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