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Bloody Lowndes : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Lowndes County--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Alabama--Lowndes County--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Alabama--Lowndes County--Politics and government--20th century.
- Lowndes County (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Lowndes County (Ala.).
- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.).
- Lowndes County (Ala.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells the remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era
- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement
- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response
- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights
- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics
- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966
- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era
- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-4365-X
- OCLC:
- 646885705
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