You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement

by Kimberly K. Little

Book Overview

"You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617037230
• ISBN13: 9781617037238
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"