| Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Subjects: Civil rights movements; African Americans; African American women; African American women civil rights workers; African American women political activists; In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi , Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom Riders who were unjustly arrested and then tortured in Mississippi jails. Womanpower Unlimited expanded its activism to include programs such as voter registration drives, youth education, and participation in Women Strike for Peace. Womanpower Unlimited proved to be not only a significant organization with regard to civil rights activism in Mississippi but also a spearhead movement for revitalizing black women's social and political activism in the state. TIYI M. MORRIS is an assistant professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at Ohio State University. |