Our Minds on Freedom

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Our Minds on Freedom is written by Shannon Frystak and published by LSU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080713662X (ISBN 10) and 9780807136621 (ISBN 13).

Our Minds on Freedom examines the role of women as organizers and leaders in the black struggle for equality in Louisiana. Using gender as a basic organizing principle, in combination with other systems of inequality -- race and class -- it challenges the notion that "men led, women organized," and places female activism, regardless of gendered expectations, at the center. The author concludes that women were not passive participants in the Louisiana civil rights movement, but leaders and heroines in their own right.