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Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
(2022)
By: Cope, Suzanne, 1978-

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
323.0922/COPE,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 323.0922/COPE,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2022]
DESCRIPTION

xxii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781641604529, 1641604522 :, 1641604522, 9781641604529
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Two unsung Black women, Cleo Silvers and Aylene Quin, used food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement, generating influence and power so great that it brought the ire of government agents down on them"--

Additional Titles

TITLES

Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement

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SUBJECTS

African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.

African American women political activists -- Biography.

Quin, Aylene, 1920-2001.

Silvers, Cleo

Black Panther Party. Harlem Chapter.

Food -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

McComb (Miss.) -- Biography.

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AHML Diversity book project -- Black interest

AHML Diversity book project -- Equity & social issues