Women Of The Civil Rights Movement

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SCLC Education Director Dorothy Cotton teaches a Citizen Education Program class.

The most famous names from the fight for African-American Civil Rights belong to men: Martin, Malcolm, Jesse, John. But of course women were there all along, behind the scenes and on the frontlines. Still, their stories are often overshadowed or absent from history books. 

Now there's an opportunity to learn more about them and their efforts to bring racial equality to the US. The records of women who were part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are now available to to public at Emory University. SCLC Women was founded in 1979 in Atlanta, and its headquarters are still here today.

We speak with Southern Christian Leadership Conference/W.O.M.E.N Interim Chair Scarlet Presley Brown and Emory University Manuscript Archivist Sarah Quigley about the records and the contributions of women in the Civil Rights Movement.