Let the People Decide [electronic resource] : Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moye, J. Todd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Summary:

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades. Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, the freedom-fighting sharecropper who rose to national prominence as head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Sunflower was the birthplace o

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Kelly's Introduction; Jenny's Introduction; 1. Preparations and Decorations; 2. Serenading; 3. Gifts and Santa; 4. Food and Menus; 5. Other Traditions; 6. Stories; Student Authors and Interviewees

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

476237191