Bernice Johnson Reagon : Hands on the Freedom Plow (hardcover)

Subtitled “Personal Accounts by the Women in SNCC,” this book is an unprecedented history of the Civil Rights Movement, from sit-ins to Black Power and told from the point of view of fifty-two women, northern & southern, young & old, urban & rural, black, white & Latina. Each story reveals how the struggle for social change was formed,  supported and maintained by the women who kept their “hands on the freedom plow.” The book features two entries by Bernice Johnson Reagon, composer, activist and currently a “songtalker.”  www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com