The Five Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Polly murray, billy holliday, lorraine hansbury, nina simon and and moody. Their full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a thread tying together the expanding protest of our time and of their era. All of them spent some time in new york city, echoing a them first articulated in harlem renaissance novelist jesse redmand fawsett's work, plum bun. And isn't that cute? Sh ch, che, can't rite like c c c anyway, you knew that at least one first lady was going to come up to day,