The senator and the sharecropper : the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer / Chris Myers Asch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asch, Chris Myers, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986.

Hamer, Fannie Lou.

United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.

United States.

Children of sharecroppers--Mississippi--Biography.

Children of sharecroppers.

African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Sunflower County--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Sunflower County--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Racism--Mississippi--Sunflower County--History--20th century.

Racism.

Sunflower County (Miss.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Sunflower County (Miss.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2011

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and Eastland's entw

Contents:

Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994

1. Sunflower County, 1904

2. Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter

3. "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County

4. "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad

5. "From Cotton - to Communism - to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power

6. "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement

7. 1964: Confrontations

8. "This Is America's Sickness"

9. "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back"

10. "Right on Back to the Plantation".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353] and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890840271

9781469603537

1469603535

9780807878057

0807878057

OCLC:

703138021