Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 by Frystak, Shannon - 2009

Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. This book is a study of the organizational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana asumed from the 1920s to the 1960s; it shows how black women joined and led local unions and civil rights organizations, agitating for voting rights and equal treatment in the public arena, in employment, and in education, and how black and white women began to find common ground in the YMCA, the NAACP, and the National Urban League, and worked together to organize the Baton Rouge bus boycott (black textured cloth with silver lettering on spine; black pictorial dust jacket with photos of protests on the front & back covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)