The New Press

9781620973356

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Review of ‘Lighting the Fires of Freedom’

The list of women behind the civil rights movement extends beyond the names most of us already know such as Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King. Activist Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on these forgotten heroes in Lighting the Fires of Freedom.

Fifty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Bell’s oral history…

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