Rebecca Ann Tuuri
University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001)
FT-249221-16
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage]
Totals:
$6,000 (approved)
$6,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2016 – 7/31/2016
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The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
A book-length study of the National Council of Negro Women.
This is the first full-length scholarly monograph on the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), the largest black women’s organization in the United States at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Era. Whereas recent studies of militant and visible civil rights efforts seek to retrieve and analyze a radical model of social change, this story examines how the middle class black women of the NCNW used their respectability, moderate reputation, and national network to gain access to and money from powerful political and business leaders from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Their private, non-governmental, self-help approach even appealed to conservative leaders. However, NCNW also funneled financial resources and support to projects and individuals deemed too controversial by mainstream America to gain funding on their own, thus challenging clear-cut boundaries between radicals and moderates, leftists and liberals.
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