Rebecca Tuuri

Dr. Rebecca Tuuri is an assistant professor of African American and American history at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received a Ph.D. in United States History from Rutgers University in 2012, with a concentration in Women’s and Gender and African American history. Her current manuscript, Careful Crusader: The History of the National Council of Negro Women in Black Freedom Struggle investigates the history of the civil war rights work of the largest black women’s organization in the 1960s and 1970s.

Presentations

• The Challenges of the First Fifty Years of Women's Suffrage
• "Behind Every Good Man is a Civil Rights Heroine"