Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s.
Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines.
By opening communications across societal boundaries, Wednesday’s Women sought to end violence and to cushion the transition towards racial integration.
Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), working with NCNW volunteer Polly Spiegel Cowan, came up with the idea of sending weekly teams of northern women to Mississippi.
[7] The women of Wednesdays in Mississippi had many goals: Archival records related to Wednesdays in Mississippi reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia[8] as well as at the National Archives for Black Women's History.