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This article was really enlightening and definitely brought to light another side of the Civil Rights movement (the involvement of white women) that is not often discussed. I think it is necessary to acknowledge that some southern whites really did want to help the Civil Rights movement. I know many of the above posts think that the amount of help received from white women was limited and I agree but I think this article did a good job of showing both sides to white women's involvement. I can't imagine that women like Virginia Durr were common it seems much more likely that the norm was closer to the white women who resented any interference with their black maids ability to clean their houses, the kind of women who passively supported segregation laws.-Emma Peck | This article was really enlightening and definitely brought to light another side of the Civil Rights movement (the involvement of white women) that is not often discussed. I think it is necessary to acknowledge that some southern whites really did want to help the Civil Rights movement. I know many of the above posts think that the amount of help received from white women was limited and I agree but I think this article did a good job of showing both sides to white women's involvement. I can't imagine that women like Virginia Durr were common it seems much more likely that the norm was closer to the white women who resented any interference with their black maids ability to clean their houses, the kind of women who passively supported segregation laws.-Emma Peck | ||
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| + | My questions about the articles: is there any significance in the contrast between the accounts from Parks and Durr? Durr's recounting seems much more racially charged than Parks. Maybe this has something to do with the historical tendency of African American women to spurn membership in white women's organizations because they fully recognized the dual nature of their oppression (nevermind the blatant racism of a lot of these women's groups)? Or does it have something to do with the conflict African American women had with their identities--whether to identify first as women or with their race? Also, from Durr's account, Parks' husband was the fearful one, afraid of the white retaliation against making her trial into a test case--what was the role of African American women in advancing the cause of civil rights? Is this typical--men fearful because of what little social status they had as men and having that meager little bit to lose if they spoke against segregation? Also, what were the white women of Montgomery who hired African American women as domestic servants so upset about when the mayor issued his plea that they stop driving their maids home? Was it outrage at a man telling them how to run their households or was it something more sinister--perhaps these white women, who relinquished what power they had gained during the Civil War years to return to their idyllic antebellum fantasy worlds, holding onto their status as defined by having African American servants? Were they upset because they saw their retention of black servants as a symbol of their social status within white society? -schang | ||
== Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | == Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | ||
