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Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond the Minority Plank
Part I. Symbols of Sisterhood
1. Coretta Scott King: Icon as Activist
2. Michelle Cearcy: Carrying the "Torch of Equality"
Part II. Sisters in Action
3. Dr. Gloria Dean Randle Scott: Raising the Gavel with Hope for All Women
4. Human Rights on the Homefront: Dorothy Height and Spirit of Houston

5. "I hope we won't turn our backs on the masses of women in Florida": Dr. Freddie Groomes-McLendon, the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, and the Struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment
6. "Each One Teach One": Dr. Jeffalyn Johnson on the Power of Community, Representation, and Education
Part III. Activist Organizers
7. Florynce Kennedy: A Radical Voice
8. Bringing Depth to the Movement: Race, Gender, and (Dis)Ability in the Life of Georgia McMurray
9. Beyond Combahee: Barbara Smith and Black Radical Feminism
10. Johnnie Tillmon: Welfare as a Women's Issue

11. Addie Wyatt: Bridging Social Movements
Part IV. The Politicians
12. Barbara Jordan: Conveying the Charge and the Challenge
13. Beyond the Symbolism: Shirley Chisholm, Black Feminism, and Women's Politics
14. C. Delores Tucker: Delegate-at-Large
15. "I Was Me": Yvonne Burke and the Politics of Representation
16. Maxine Waters: "I stood with Coretta Scott King"
Part V. Communicating Change
17. Clara McLaughlin: "I don't want ON, I want O-W-N"
18. An Everyday Anchorwoman
19. Sharing a Precious Gift: Photographing the National Women's Conference

List of Contributors
Index
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