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Michael Ellis
December 2, 2008
The Civil Rights Movement In Biography and Film

“The Past & The Coming�

Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and even Coretta Scott King, along with many other unmentioned woman risked their lives and worked tirelessly, demanding a social revolution -just as much as the prodiment, mentioned men- but history has often overlooked them. They were the women of the civil rights movement. Though historians now acknowledge that women, particularly African-Americans, were pivotal in the critical battles for racial equality, Rosa Parks’ death highlights the fact that she was one of the very few female civil rights figures who are widely known. Most women in the movement played background roles, either by choice or due to bias, since being a women of color meant facing both racism and sexism.
In actuality it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leadership roles. So that small subset that becomes......

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