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A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crosby, Emilye.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- White people--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century.
- White people.
- African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
- Oral history.
- Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations.
- Claiborne County (Miss.).
- Claiborne County (Miss.)--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877413
- 9780807876817
- 080787681X
- OCLC:
- 476268465
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