AP African American Studies / Unit 4: Movements and Debates
4.7 Black Women's Leadership and Grassroots Organizing in the Civil Rights Movement
Notes
Women led and organized: Ella Baker (SNCC, group-centered leadership), Fannie Lou Hamer (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party), Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson (Montgomery boycott), Septima Clark (citizenship schools).
Practice
Fannie Lou Hamer co-founded:
1964 convention.
Ella Baker believed in:
SNCC adviser.
Septima Clark is known for:
Education for voting.
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