The only civil rights project organized by women for women as part of a national women’s organization, Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS) brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged, middle- and upper-class women to Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to meet with their southern counterparts. Conceived by Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan and sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), WIMS operated on the principle that the team members’ gender, age, and class would serve as an entrée to southern women who had criticized and dismissed other civil rights activists as radicals. This trailer shows a glimpse of the women who worked together at a critical time in the civil rights movement.
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