Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945

by Lee Sartain

Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of African American activists in Louisiana and women's roles in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132217
• ISBN13: 9780807132210
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"