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Martha Prescod Norman Noonan

Martha Prescod Norman Noonan was on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement as a community organizer, activist and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).  She is the is the co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University of Illinois Press, $34.95), in which fifty-two women from all walks of life share their courageous personal stories of  sit-ins, voter registration campaigns,  freedom rides, the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summe, Black Power, and antiwar activism.

 

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