She was one the leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer Campaign, which battled white supremacy, segregation, and racial violence in Mississippi She also co-
Self, "'Negro Leadership and Negro Money': African American Political Organizing in Oakland before the Panthers," in Freedom North, ed Theoharis and Woodard,
prominent civil rights leaders such as King, but only recently have scholars begun to portray the southern black struggle as a locally based social movement
The imposition of the “Jim Crow” system of legal segregation throughout the South stifled black political progress Nevertheless, African-American leaders
is no longer in congruence with that of the formal leaders RECONCEPTUALIZING LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Women activists, as bridge leaders, were able to