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Crossroads at Clarksdale : the black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II / Francoise N. Hamlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamlin, Françoise N.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Clarksdale--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Segregation--Mississippi--Clarksdale--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Clarksdale--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Segregation--Mississippi--Clarksdale--History--20th century.
- Segregation.
- Clarksdale (Miss.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Clarksdale (Miss.).
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coahoma County Branch--History.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997.
- Henry, Aaron.
- Pigee, Vera Mae, 1924-2007.
- Pigee, Vera Mae.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments of its diverse African American community and strong NAACP branch, and examining the extreme brutality of entrenched power there. The Clarksdale story defies triumphant narratives of dramatic change, and presents instead a layered, contentious, untidy, and often disappointingly unresolved civil r
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Black Freedom Struggle at the Crossroads; ONE: Washington Was Far Away: Defining a Different Postwar Delta; TWO: M Is for Mississippi and Murder . . . and Mother; THREE: I Think Freedom and Talk Freedom: Demanding Desegregation, 1960-1963; FOUR: Fires of Frustration: Summers of 1963 to 1965; FIVE: Children Should Not Be Subjected To What Is Going On There: Desegregating Schools; SIX: It Was a Peaceful Revolution: Johnson's Great Society and Economic Justice in Coahoma County
- Epilogue: I Have Not Ended the Story For There Is No End: Continuing Histories of Clarksdale's Black Freedom StruggleAppendix: Black and White Freedom Summer Volunteers in Clarksdale; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-225-0
- 979-88-908803-3-8
- 1-4696-0169-9
- 0-8078-6985-6
- OCLC:
- 793510873
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