Christina Greene
Christina Greene (Ph.D., Duke University, 1996) is a historian whose teaching
and writing focuses on African American women’s activism. She is the author of
Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina,
1940-1970 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) which won the Julia Cherry
Spruill Award for best published work in southern women’s history from the Southern
Association for Women Historians. She has published in Frontiers:
A Journal of Women’s Studies, Feminist Studies, Journal of Southern History,
the two-volume reference work Civil
Rights in the United States and in several edited collections, Hidden
Histories of Women in the New South (1994) and From the Grass Roots
to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (2004).
Greene is also a contributor and subject editor for African
American National Biography (Oxford, 2008) and is currently working on a
book-length monograph of the 1970s Free Joan Little Movement.
Education
Ph.D. 1996, Duke University,
Department of History
M.A. 1979, Sarah Lawrence College, Women's History Program
B.A.1977, City College of New York (CCNY/CUNY), Department of English,
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Publications
"'We'll Take
Our Stand:’" Race, Class and Gender in the Southern Student
Organizing Committee," in Hidden Histories of Women in the New
South, eds. Elizabeth Berghardt, et al (University of Missouri, 1994)
"In the Best Interest of the Total Community?:" Women-in-Action
and the Problems of Building an Interracial, Cross-Class Women's Alliance,"
in Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies (1996)
Work
"Our Separate
Ways:" Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina,
1940-1970
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African American
Women's Activism
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
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