Belles of Liberty

Gender, Bennett College, and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina

• Author(s): Linda Beatrice Brown,
• Publisher: Women and Wisdom Press
• Pages: 207
• ISBN_10: 0988893703
  ISBN_13: 9780988893702
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Student Life & Student Affairs , History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , Political Science / Civil Rights , Political Science / Women in Politics , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&T State University. Significantly, the integration of public accommodations of that city and many cities followed. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement recalls a more complete story, illuminating what historians overlooked: that the first Sit-in in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus, and without hundreds of women who sat down, marched and were incarcerated from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-in effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro and even other cities, might not have succeeded.