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

by Janet Dewart Bell

Hardcover, 2018

Status

Available

Publication

The New Press (2018), Edition: 1st, 240 pages

Description

"Through wide-ranging conversations with nine African American women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices"--

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Awards

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nominee — Debut Author — 2019)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

240 p.; 8.4 inches

ISBN

1620975580 / 9781620975589
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