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Lectures in History

African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

News, History, Politics

4.2737 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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University of Delaware professor Tiffany Gill teaches a class about the role of African American women in the Civil Rights Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And now the role of African-American women in the Civil Rights Movement.

1:03.7

Over the next hour, University of Delaware professor Tiffany Gill describes how women organize sit-ins, voter registration drives, and boycotts,

1:08.9

and how beauty parlors functioned as their safe place.

1:12.5

This is from our weekend series lectures and history.

1:17.7

All right, good afternoon.

1:21.1

We're at the point in the semester.

1:23.2

We have been looking at the long history of African Americans since the Civil War.

1:29.3

We've looked at the long struggle for what historian Hassan Jeffries calls freedom rights, right?

1:35.3

We've been looking at this quest for economic, social, and political self-determination,

1:41.3

for educational access and equity. And we're looking at this long quest for the full

1:47.0

realization of freedom and citizenship. And so we're getting to the point in the semester

1:52.4

where we're talking about the civil rights movement. We've been looking at that for a couple of

1:56.8

sessions now. And the interesting thing about teaching the civil rights movement is that

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