American civil rights activist
Muriel Tillinghast is an American civil rights activist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary.[1] Her efforts include volunteering for the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi where she helped start the famed 1964 Freedom School and led Mississippi's Council of Federated Organizations (COFO).[2][3]
- ^ Tillinghast, Muriel; McFadden, Patricia (1991-01-01). "WOMEN AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS". Yale Journal of Law and Liberation. 2 (1).
- ^ Collins, Ed (July 2012). "Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, and Dorothy M. Zellner, eds., Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC., Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2010. Pp. 616. Cloth $34.95. Paper $26.95". The Journal of African American History. 97 (3): 354–358. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.3.0354. ISSN 1548-1867.
- ^ "Muriel Tillinghast". SNCC Digital Gateway. Retrieved 2021-04-30.