12154. BLACK WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Drawing primarily on an article in “Black Studies” by Teresa A. Nance (“Hearing the Missing Voice”), along with two other supplementary sources, this paper explores the role of women, especially African American women, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Considers some of the reasons why black women were largely excluded from leadership roles in the movement. Keywords: civil rights race relations women leadership. Written 1996. 8 pages; 24 footnotes; 3 bibliographic sources.