Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / Laurie B. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Laurie Boush.

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--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Racism--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century.

Racism.

Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Memphis (Tenn.).

Memphis (Tenn.)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Summary:

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the ground

Contents:

Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta

Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror

Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice

Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault

Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War

Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere

Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education

We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement

Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908741-0-8

0-8078-8887-7

OCLC:

593230906