The senator and the sharecropper: the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
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1. Verfasser: Asch, Chris Myers (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press 2011
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Beschreibung:Originally published in 2008 by The New Press
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index
Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994 - 1 -- - 1 - Sunflower County, 1904 - 6 -- - 2 - Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter - 33 -- - 3 - "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County - 65 -- - 4 - "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad - 99 -- - 5 - "From Cotton-to Communism-to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power - 132 -- - 6 - "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement - 167 -- - 7 - 1964: Confrontations - 198 -- - 8 - "This Is America's Sickness" - 221 -- - 9 - "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back" - 253 -- - 10 - "Right on Back to the Plantation" - 279
This is the story of the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century told through the deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and wealthy cotton planter, Senator James O. Eastland, and his sharecropper nemesis, Fannie Lou Hamer, who became the spiritual leader of the civil rights movement
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ISBN:0807872024
0807878057
1469603535
9780807872024
9780807878057
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