Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement and militancy in the late 1960s. Harley argues that although the Cambridge Movement prefigured later forms of protest under her leadership, Gloria Richardson's subsequent "marginalization" (p. 191)-both as a leader and, later, in movement historiography-was due in part to her failure to fit the paradigm of protest of the early 1960s.

Instructors of the growing number of college courses on black women's activism and women in the civil rights movement will welcome the editors'...