ch 1. Ida Wells and the campaign against lynching -- ch 2. Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women -- ch 3. Septima Clark and the citizenship schools -- ch 4. The women of the Montgomery bus boycott -- ch 5. Daisy Bates and school desegregation -- ch 6. Ella Baker, the spiritual leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- ch 7. Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Summary
Places important topics in context so that readers will understand the connection between black history and the sweep of America's story. This volume covers African American women civil rights workers.