Reviews
"Every college and university library should purchase this book, which also merits consideration as supplemental reading for courses on the Civil Rights Movement and southern women's history."
"Highly recommended."
--Choice
"Throwing of the Cloak of Privilege should be included on reading lists for women's history courses and courses on the civil rights movement. Its reevaluations of elite and privileged women are an important contribution to those histories, for the cloak of privilege was transformed into the cloak of empowerment for all women--black, white, Asian, Latina. It should be considered a valuable resource for research and for the classroom."
--Arkansas Historical Quarterly
"A welcome contribution to the continuing study of white women's roles in the civil rights movement."
--The South Carolina Historical Magazine
"Murray and the other authors in the volume have done a fine job illustrating the complexity of white Southern responses to the civil rights movement."
--H-Net/H-South
"If the modern civil rights movement was indeed a revolution, especially for the South, then our understanding of its history must include how the struggle for racial justice changed the region.Throwing off the Cloak of Privilege provides a way to grasp the scope of the South's transformation through the study of white women activists and the organizations they led and joined….This is an important compilation."
--Journal of Southern History
"A welcome addition to civil rights literature. It presents an interesting perspective on the Civil Rights Movement and the diversity of its participants. This book illustrates the important contributions that white southern women made... Overall, this anthology provides a wonderful contribution both to civil rights and women's historiography."
--Southern Historian
"The authors in Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege make strong cases for the women's ability to create grassroots leadership, influence people, and build cross-racial relationships (all during the years of the feminine mystique, I might add). As editor Murray states, the story of the white progressive response to black activism is part of the story of the civil rights movement."
--Signs
"A fine addition to the literature of the civil rights movement."
--American Historical Review
"This volume firmly established the longevity of women's organizations as agents of progressive social change, something often neglected in histories of the civil rights movement."
--The Journal of American History