Battling the plantation mentality: Memphis and the Black freedom struggle
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1. Verfasser: Green, Laurie B., (Laurie Beth) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2007
Schriftenreihe:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-379) and index
Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike
African American freedom is often defined by emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. This book argues that no single event makes this plainer than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing 'plantation mentality' based on race, gender, and power, which permeated southern culture long before - and even after - the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s
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ISBN:0807888877
1469604531
9780807888872
9781469604534

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