Goals
The women of Wednesdays in Mississippi had many goals:
- racial justice;
- inter-racial, inter-regional, and inter-faith communications;
- working across racial and religious boundaries, opening the closed society of Mississippi;
- supporting the freedom schools and voter registration;
- helping poor women in Mississippi learn how to help themselves, how to achieve economic self-sufficiency. They taught poor women how to survive in a society where the cotton economy had collapsed for poor tenants and laborers, and where a viable new economic structure not yet developed;
- and expanding the horizons and commitments of the northern women.
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