Louisiana beyond black and white : new interpretations of twentieth-century race and race relations / edited by Michael S. Martin ; foreword by Adam Fairclough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Michael S., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

Social conditions.

Race relations.

History.

Louisiana--Race relations--20th century.

Louisiana.

Louisiana--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 186 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lafeyette : University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2011.

Contents:

Ethnicity and Jim Crow : the Americanization of Louisiana's Creoles / Susan E. Dollar

Calumny in the house of the lord : the 1932 Zion Traveler Church shooting / Thomas Aiello

Separate but sinful : the desegregation of Louisiana Catholicism, 1938-1962 / Justin Poché

Progressives and conservatives? : Louisiana's bifactional politics and massive resistance / John Kyle Day

Race, Cold War, and academia : Medford Evans of Northwestern State College, 1955-1959 / Charles J. Pellegrin

Lost, stolen and strayed : Marcus Christian's crusade against segregationist history / Michael G. Wade

A dissenting tradition : Louisiana women and the black struggle for equality, 1924-1968 / Shannon Frystak

From votes to vegetables : civil rights activism and the low-income cooperative movement in Louisiana after 1965 / Greta de Jong

Epilogue : Katrina and the social construction of race in New Orleans / Shannon Frystak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781935754046

1935754041

OCLC:

694283186