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A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 / Greta de Jong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Jong, Greta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- Rural African Americans.
- African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Rural population--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- Rural population.
- Rural African Americans--Louisiana--Politics and government--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Louisiana--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Louisiana--Race relations.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--Rural conditions.
- Louisiana--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here, the author examines African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. Using a wide range of sources, she illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance in the early 20th century and the mass protests of the 50s and 60s.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 And Did Not Pay Them a Cent: Reconstruction and the
- Roots of the Twentieth-Century Freedom Struggle 10
- 2 Our Plight Here Is Bad: The Limits of Protest in a New
- South Plantation Economy 19
- 3 They Will Not Fight in the Open: Strategies of Resistance in
- the Jim Crow Era 41
- 4 We Feel You All Aut to Help Us: Struggles for Citizenship,
- 1914-1929 64
- 5 With the Aid of God and the FSA: The Louisiana Farmers'
- Union and the Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era 85
- 6 I Am an American Born Negro: Black Empowerment and
- White Responses during World War II 116
- 7 The Social Order Have Changed: The Emergence of the Civil
- Rights Movement, 1945-1960 144
- 8 To Provide Leadership and an Example: The Congress of
- Racial Equality and Local People in the 1960s 175.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890873484
- 9780807860106
- 0807860107
- OCLC:
- 476236539
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