000003076 001__ 3076 000003076 005__ 20240523053853.0 000003076 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.3076 000003076 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bThesis 000003076 041__ $$aeng 000003076 245__ $$aFreedom Summer of 1964 and Feminism(s) 000003076 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000003076 269__ $$a2021-08-27 000003076 336__ $$aThesis 000003076 502__ $$bM.A. 000003076 520__ $$aThis paper focuses on expanding the definition of feminism to include the experiences of African American women SNCC workers during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, a nonviolent effort to integrate Mississippi’s segregated political system. As this paper will demonstrate, feminism and the ways in which the women viewed or experienced feminism during the Freedom Summer, meant something different for each woman in SNCC. Many of them did not call themselves feminists or refer to feminism during 1964, though some did so later on in their lives. I argue that analyzing the differing experiences of Black and white women in SNCC during Freedom Summer of 1964 and the following year, through an intersectional lens, reveals how the traditional definition of second-wave feminism can be expanded to include the experiences of African American female SNCC workers who established their voices by leading in a major civil rights organization. 000003076 542__ $$fCC BY 000003076 6531_ $$aFreedom Summer of 1964 000003076 6531_ $$aStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 000003076 6531_ $$aAfrican American Women 000003076 6531_ $$aWhite Women 000003076 6531_ $$aCivil Rights Movement 000003076 6531_ $$aCivil Rights Organization 000003076 6531_ $$aFeminism 000003076 6531_ $$aSecond-Wave Feminism 000003076 6531_ $$aMississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 000003076 6531_ $$aMississippi 000003076 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000003076 691__ $$aMA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) 000003076 7001_ $$aBorg, Lauren $$uUniversity of Chicago 000003076 72012 $$aPeggy O'Donnell 000003076 72014 $$aCate Fugazzola 000003076 8564_ $$9268d0acb-9206-4f07-8e76-49b715b4b87a$$s360814$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3076/files/Freedom%20Summer%20of%201964%20and%20Feminism%28s%29.pdf$$ePublic 000003076 908__ $$aI agree 000003076 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:3076$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pTheses 000003076 983__ $$aThesis