Pioneering Feminists of the Civil Rights Movement

This project focuses on black females of the civil rights movement in Houston, using voting rights as a test case. Unlike most other southern cities where black women were mobilizers and organizers, in Houston they were leaders in the traditional sense of the word: leaders of men and women. They were at the forefront of the cause for equal opportunities, civil rights, and voting rights at a time when neither the nation nor the state had the will or determination to make a commitment to racial and sexual equality. These women were political activists.