Posted: April 25th, 2025

Women, Gender, and the Civil Rights Movement Discussion

What new understandings of women’s roles in the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) developed for you, now that you’ve read about women’s participation,  contributions, experiences and leadership?

Reference two things you learned about the CRM and women or gender such as events, individual women, or primary source documents, important developments or contributions or other examples  (any mix of those) or more from your reading or viewing in the assigned materials in your response. Show familiarity with the reading, using quotations and specificity, especially with regard to the primary and secondary sources. Ware is a tertiary source–she’s synthesized what other historians have written to provide a general overview.

Admiration is likely a response to what we’ve read about this week; add in analysis/explanation to your response as well. What did you learn from this week’s reading?

WEEK 14: Women, Gender, Rights, in the 1950s: Domesticity Revisited?

Title Citation

Ruby Bridges Interview (8 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour
Productions, 2010.

Dorothy Height Interview (10 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour
Productions, 2010.

How did African American Women Shape the
Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges
did They Face? (Please read at least six
primary sources from this important
collection. If you read the discussion prompts
first you may have an easier time identifying
quotations to include in your posts.)

Gail S. Murray, How Did African American
Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and
What Challenges Did They Face? (Alexandria,
VA: Alexander Street, 2010).

“I Wanted the Whole World

To See”: Constructions of

Motherhood in the Death of

Emmett Till by Ruth

Feldman (Be advised: article includes
discussion of difficult- to-read-about-racial
violence and its consequences, perpetrated
on a child.)

RUTH Feldstein,. “‘I Wanted the Whole
World To See’: Constructions of Motherhood
in the Death of Emmett Till.” In Motherhood in
Black and White: Race and Sex in American
Liberalism, 1930–1965, 86–110. Cornell
University Press, 2000.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5rdvsk
.8.

American Women’s History: A Very Short
Introduction Ch. 4, pp 100-103

Susan Ware: American Women’s History: A
Very Short Introduction

Week 14 Hive mind doc

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