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A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi Emilye Crosby

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Author:
Crosby, Emilye  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) illustrations
Type:
Biography
Electronic books
Biographies
History
Place:
Mississippi
Claiborne County
Claiborne County (Miss.)
Date:
2005
20th century
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Contents:
Jim Crow rules -- A taste of freedom -- Adapting and preserving white supremacy -- Working for a better day -- Reacting to the Brown decision -- Winning the right to organize -- A new day begun -- Moving for freedom -- It really started out at Alcorn -- Everybody stood for the boycott -- Clinging to power and the past -- Seeing that justice is done -- Our leader Charles Evers -- Charles Evers's own little empire -- A legacy of polarization -- Not nearly what it ought to be -- Conclusion : What it is this freedom? -- Epilogue. Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?
Summary:
A community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi that explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities. It analyzes the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, and the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy
Topic:
African Americans--Civil rights--History  Search this
Civil rights movements--History  Search this
White people--History  Search this
African American civil rights workers  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Oral history  Search this
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights  Search this
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights  Search this
African Americans--Civil rights  Search this
Civil rights movements  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Call number:
F347.C5 C76 2005 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
Use copy Restrictions unspecified
Unlimited
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145565