The hidden help : black domestic workers in the civil rights movement.

Black women;Women's studies;Women in civil rights;Black domestic workers

Trena Easley Armstrong

University:University of Louisville

Department:Pan-African Studies

关键词: Black women;    Women's studies;    Women in civil rights;    Black domestic workers;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

During the 1960's, nearly ninety percent of black women in the South worked as domestic servants. While much has been written depicting the dehumanizing and exploitative conditions in which they lived, their contributions to human rights garnered from their subtle acts of resistance and specifically, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, has either been undocumented or documented quite minimally. Despite their historical roles and socioeconomic disadvantages, their reach for human agency was beneficial to society. This thesis examines their labor as domestic workers and their participation in the Civil Rights Movement using the qualitative research method of interviews and black feminist theoretical perspective.