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Freedom's Daughters (Scribner; 460 pages; $30) weaves the stories of neglected figures like Pauli Murray, organizer of the first sit-ins in Washington during the 1940s, and Gloria Richardson, the firebrand of the struggle in Cambridge, Md., during the 1960s, into a seamless saga of inspiring protest. Olson's subjects had to battle not only white supremacy but also the chauvinism of male civil rights leaders. As she writes, black women in the movement "felt torn between loyalty to their race and loyalty to their sex. Most of them chose race, insisting that their own liberation could...