A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 / Greta de Jong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Jong, Greta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Louisiana--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--History--20th century.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Louisiana--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans--Louisiana--Social conditions--20th century.

Rural population--Louisiana--History--20th century.

Rural population.

Rural conditions.

Race relations.

History.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Louisiana--Race relations.

Louisiana.

Louisiana--Rural conditions.

Louisiana--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]

Summary:

De Jong explores the numerous, often-subtle methods African Americans used to resist oppression within the confines of the Jim Crow system. Such everyday forms of resistance included developing strategies for educating black children, creating strong community institutions, and fighting back against white violence. De Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.

ISBN:

0807827118

0807853798

OCLC:

48707016