A Sisterhood of Support: The Pillars of Civil Rights
A Sisterhood of Support: The Pillars of Civil Rights: "By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 1, 2006; Page C01
In churches throughout America, small and large, urban or 'in the country' -- as the Southern folk like to say -- they're known as 'Sisters.' As in Sister King. As in Sister Lowery. As in Sister Baskin.
They're the women who gave so much to the civil rights movement over the years. Women who set the tables -- because the kids had to eat -- when husbands were traveling through the pine woods to register voters. Women who closed the living room curtains and fretted into the night about bomb throwers."
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 1, 2006; Page C01
In churches throughout America, small and large, urban or 'in the country' -- as the Southern folk like to say -- they're known as 'Sisters.' As in Sister King. As in Sister Lowery. As in Sister Baskin.
They're the women who gave so much to the civil rights movement over the years. Women who set the tables -- because the kids had to eat -- when husbands were traveling through the pine woods to register voters. Women who closed the living room curtains and fretted into the night about bomb throwers."
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