Overview
Instructions:Read the attached article,"Black Women Obstacles in the Civil Rights Movement."Type AT LEAST A THREE PAGE reaction which addresses the following:
1.Per the article,how did gender,class and race initially cause minority women to be excluded from historical narrative?EXPLAIN EACH ISSUE'S IMPACT.
2.a.Per the article, how did "historical patriarchy" facilitate African-American women's marginalized "place" within the American Civil Rights Movement despite their signifcant contributions?
b.Do you find it surprsing or ironic that some African-American women were complicit within the patriarchal diminish of their central roles in the movement?EXPLAIN.
3.Looking back at some of the individual stories/recollections from the article, CITE AT LEAST THREE EXAMPLES of roles or assertions made by women activists, that impressed you.EXPLAIN YOUR SELECTION.
4. This article,published in the 1990s,is reflective of that era's gap in women's contributions within the American civil rights movement narrative.How has that "narrative gap" been filled within the twenty-first century?IN ORDER TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION,YOU WILL NEED TO GOOGLE SEARCH ATLEAST FIVE PUBLISHED WORKS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS THAT WERE PUBLISHED WITHIN THE 2000s.Provide the titles of these works,their authors and publication dates.
5.Why do you think the 2000s has yielded more women's historical narratives?
Paper Standards: NON-NUMBERED(type in a multi-paragraph format),double-spaced and size twelve Times New Roman font.