Black Women in Leadership Positions in the SNCC between 1960-1964: The Formation of their Activism

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2017-06-15
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The grand civil rights narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States almost solely focusses on black men, even though research proves that black women were at least as important as men in the fight for equal racial rights. This research aims to create a more inclusive grand civil rights narrative, by exploring a different side of leadership and organization through the analysis of how black female activists in leadership positions in the SNCC from 1960 to 1964, were influenced by social control in their civil rights work, and how they shaped their own activism. This is done by looking at the influence of concepts such as gender and class, and how they create limitations and prescriptions for black women in the 1960s, and how black female activists themselves dealt with these notions. The results of this research and its three case studies, show that black women were all limited in different ways on their different levels of activism, but that they were all able to work around their limitations, to create new meanings for the concepts of leadership and womanhood in the 1960s.
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