FEMST 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Josefina Fierro De Bright, Luisa Moreno, Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Only those with money, skills, and influence can be effective leader. Lack of leadership renewal; burnout: collective grassroots organizing. Views ordinary people"s lives & experiences as valuable sources of knowledge. Inspired by montgomery bus boycott (1955), became involved in sclc organiztion, and society: left sclc in 1960 and helped form sncc (student nonviolent. Coordinating committee)- challenged middle-class politics of civil rights organizations. Labor) in fl and other union orgs in texas: with josefina fierro de bright, organised el congreso del pueblo de habla. Espa ola (el congreso) in late 1930s in la: like many immigrant leftist activists, deported in 1950. Formation of chicana feminist consciousness: blackwell argues that chicana feminism emerged from historical legacy of. Woc activism & gendered contradictions in chicano movement: like moreno, many latinas led women-centered strategies for civil rights, worker"s rights, educational equity, and political power, chicana activists opposed racism and image of the ideal chicana .
