Hands on the Freedom Plow
Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

Holsaert, Faith S., et al.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Year First Published: {45017 Hands on the Freedom Plow HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Holsaert, Faith S., et al. University of Illinois Press A collection of personal stories of women working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 2010 2012 656pp BC45017s-HandsonFreedomPlow.jpg B Book 978-0252078880 - Table of Contents Introduction Part 1 Fighting for My Rights: One SNCC Woman's Experience, 1961–1964 From Little Memphis Girl to Mississippi Amazon, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons aka Gwendolyn Robinson Part 2 Entering Troubled Waters: Sit-ins, the Founding of SNCC, and the Freedom Rides, 1960–1963 What We Were Talking about Was Our Future, Angeline Butler An Official Observer, Constance Curry Onto Open Ground, Casey Hayden Two Variations on Nonviolence, Mildred Forman Page A Young Communist Joins SNCC, Debbie Amis Bell Watching, Waiting, and Resisting, Hellen O’Neal-McCray Diary of a Freedom Rider, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland They Are the Ones Who Got Scared, Diane Nash Part 3 Movement Leaning Posts: The Heart and Soul of the Southwest Georgia Movement, 1961–1963 Ripe for the Picking, Janie Culbreth Rambeau Finding Form for the Expression of My Discontent, Annette Jones White Uncovered and Without Shelter, I Joined This Movement for Freedom, Bernice Johnson Reagon We Turned This Upside-Down Country Right Side Up, Joann Christian Mants Everybody Called Me "Teach", McCree L. Harris I Love to Sing, Rutha Mae Harris Since I Laid My Burden Down, Bernice Johnson Reagon We Just Kept Going, Carolyn Daniels Part 4 Standing Tall: The Southwest Georgia Movement, 1962–1963 It Was Simply in My Blood, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely Freedom-Faith, Prathia Hall Resistance U, Faith S. Holsaert Caught in the Middle, Cathy Cade Part 5 Get on Board: The Mississippi Movement through the Atlantic City Challenge, 1961–1964 Standing Up for Our Beliefs, Joyce Ladner Inside and Outside of Two Worlds, Jeannette King They Didn't Know the Power of Women, Victoria Gray Adams Do Whatever You Are Big Enough to Do, Jean Smith Young Depending on Ourselves, Muriel Tillinghast A Grand Romantic Notion, Denise Nicholas If We Must Die, Janet Jemmott Moses Part 6 Cambridge, Maryland: The Movement under Attack, 1961–1964 The Energy of the People Passing through Me, Gloria Richardson Dandridge Part 7 A Sense of Family: The National SNCC Office, 1960–1964 Peek around the Mountain, Joanne Grant My Real Vocation, Dorothy M. Zellner A SNCC Blue Book, Jane Bond Moore Getting Out the News, Mary E. King It's Okay to Fight the Status Quo, E. Jeanne Breaker Johnson SNCC: My Enduring "Circle of Trust", Judy Richardson Working in the Eye of the Social Movement Storm, Betty Garman Robinson In the Attics of My Mind, Casey Hayden Building a New World, Barbara Jones Omolade Part 8 Fighting Another Day: The Mississippi Movement after Atlantic City, 1964–1966 A Simple Question, Margaret Herring The Mississippi Cotton Vote, Penny Patch The Freedom Struggle Was the Flame, Elaine DeLott Baker An Interracial Alliance of the Poor: An Elusive Populist Fantasy?, Emmie Schrader Adams We Weren't the Bad Guys, Barbara Brandt Sometimes in the Ground Troops, Sometimes in the Leadership, Doris A. Derby Part 9 The Constant Struggle: The Alabama Movement, 1963–1966 There Are No Cowards in My Family, Annie Pearl Avery Singing for Freedom, Bettie Mae Fikes Bloody Selma, Prathia Hall Playtime Is Over, Fay Bellamy Powell Captured by the Movement, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan We’ll Never Turn Back, Gloria House Letter to My Adolescent Son, Jean Wiley Part 10 Black Power: Issues of Continuity, Change, and Personal Identity, 1964–1969 Neither Black nor White in a Black-White World, Elizabeth (Betita) Sutherland Martinez I Knew I Wasn't White, but in America What Was I?, Marilyn Lowen Time to Get Ready, Maria Varela Born Freedom Fighter, Gwen Patton Postscript: We Who Believe in Freedom Index CX18185 0 false true false CX18185.htm [] Cx}
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 656pp ISBN: 978-0252078880
Resource Type: Book
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A collection of personal stories of women working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1
Fighting for My Rights: One SNCC Woman's Experience, 1961–1964
From Little Memphis Girl to Mississippi Amazon, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons aka Gwendolyn Robinson

Part 2
Entering Troubled Waters: Sit-ins, the Founding of SNCC, and the Freedom Rides, 1960–1963
What We Were Talking about Was Our Future, Angeline Butler
An Official Observer, Constance Curry
Onto Open Ground, Casey Hayden
Two Variations on Nonviolence, Mildred Forman Page
A Young Communist Joins SNCC, Debbie Amis Bell
Watching, Waiting, and Resisting, Hellen O’Neal-McCray
Diary of a Freedom Rider, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
They Are the Ones Who Got Scared, Diane Nash

Part 3
Movement Leaning Posts: The Heart and Soul of the Southwest Georgia Movement, 1961–1963
Ripe for the Picking, Janie Culbreth Rambeau
Finding Form for the Expression of My Discontent, Annette Jones White
Uncovered and Without Shelter, I Joined This Movement for Freedom, Bernice Johnson Reagon
We Turned This Upside-Down Country Right Side Up, Joann Christian Mants
Everybody Called Me "Teach", McCree L. Harris
I Love to Sing, Rutha Mae Harris
Since I Laid My Burden Down, Bernice Johnson Reagon
We Just Kept Going, Carolyn Daniels

Part 4
Standing Tall: The Southwest Georgia Movement, 1962–1963
It Was Simply in My Blood, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Freedom-Faith, Prathia Hall
Resistance U, Faith S. Holsaert
Caught in the Middle, Cathy Cade

Part 5
Get on Board: The Mississippi Movement through the Atlantic City Challenge, 1961–1964
Standing Up for Our Beliefs, Joyce Ladner
Inside and Outside of Two Worlds, Jeannette King
They Didn't Know the Power of Women, Victoria Gray Adams
Do Whatever You Are Big Enough to Do, Jean Smith Young
Depending on Ourselves, Muriel Tillinghast
A Grand Romantic Notion, Denise Nicholas
If We Must Die, Janet Jemmott Moses

Part 6
Cambridge, Maryland: The Movement under Attack, 1961–1964
The Energy of the People Passing through Me, Gloria Richardson Dandridge

Part 7
A Sense of Family: The National SNCC Office, 1960–1964
Peek around the Mountain, Joanne Grant
My Real Vocation, Dorothy M. Zellner
A SNCC Blue Book, Jane Bond Moore
Getting Out the News, Mary E. King
It's Okay to Fight the Status Quo, E. Jeanne Breaker Johnson
SNCC: My Enduring "Circle of Trust", Judy Richardson
Working in the Eye of the Social Movement Storm, Betty Garman Robinson
In the Attics of My Mind, Casey Hayden
Building a New World, Barbara Jones Omolade

Part 8
Fighting Another Day: The Mississippi Movement after Atlantic City, 1964–1966
A Simple Question, Margaret Herring
The Mississippi Cotton Vote, Penny Patch
The Freedom Struggle Was the Flame, Elaine DeLott Baker
An Interracial Alliance of the Poor: An Elusive Populist Fantasy?, Emmie Schrader Adams
We Weren't the Bad Guys, Barbara Brandt
Sometimes in the Ground Troops, Sometimes in the Leadership, Doris A. Derby

Part 9
The Constant Struggle: The Alabama Movement, 1963–1966
There Are No Cowards in My Family, Annie Pearl Avery
Singing for Freedom, Bettie Mae Fikes
Bloody Selma, Prathia Hall
Playtime Is Over, Fay Bellamy Powell
Captured by the Movement, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan
We’ll Never Turn Back, Gloria House
Letter to My Adolescent Son, Jean Wiley

Part 10
Black Power: Issues of Continuity, Change, and Personal Identity, 1964–1969
Neither Black nor White in a Black-White World, Elizabeth (Betita) Sutherland Martinez
I Knew I Wasn't White, but in America What Was I?, Marilyn Lowen
Time to Get Ready, Maria Varela
Born Freedom Fighter, Gwen Patton

Postscript: We Who Believe in Freedom

Index

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Hands on the Freedom Plow
Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC