Description
Women have rarely been recognized as leaders in the civil rights movement, and this project--using Atlanta as a case study--suggests that the problem of women's leadership is one of historical memory. The study brings the past and present of women's leadership together by drawing attention to the development of an official history of leadership in Atlanta that diverted (and continues to divert) attention from the wide range of women's activism and local leadership. Oral history provides the guiding methodology of this study, and the insights generated by the interviews outlined in this project allow a more encompassing and gender-conscious history of the civil rights movement to be written.
