Progressive Women in Conservative Times : Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism, 1945 to the 1960s

Susan Lynn explores women's progressive social reform efforts in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when women activists promoted a postwar vision of a society based on an expanded welfare state, a powerful labor movement, a strong tradition of civil liberties, racial equality, and a peaceful international order. Lynn focuses on two organizations, the YWCA and the American Friends Service Committee, to explore this agenda. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "The Changer and the Changed": The Radicalization of Women Activists in the Interwar Decades 2. Children of One Father: The Development of an Interracial Organization in the YWCA 3. Speaking Truth to Power: The AFSC and the Struggle for Racial Justice 4. Women and Peace Activism in Cold War America 5. Feminism, Domesticity, and Women's Social Reform in Postwar America 6. New Sprouts from Old Roots: The Development of the Protest Movements of the 1960s Conclusion List of Interviews Notes Index