2 options
Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / Patricia Michelle Boyett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyett, Patricia Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Race discrimination--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- African Americans--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--History--20th century.
- Piney Woods (Miss. : Region)--Race relations.
- Piney Woods (Miss. : Region).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
- Summary:
- A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a "moderate" part of the segregated South.
- Contents:
- Prologue: roots of revolt
- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays
- Massive resistance and the making of the movement
- Freedom days and white knights
- Operation freedom summer
- Wars of attrition
- War on the white knights and the white city
- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan
- Stalemate
- Epilogue: road to redemption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4968-0434-1
- OCLC:
- 920469759
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.