Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

by Janet Dewart Bell

Book Overview

Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle

Winner of the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)

A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that plumbs the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights--many nearly lost to history--from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620973359
• ISBN13: 9781620973356
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"