American Congo:

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individu...

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Main Author: WOODRUFF, Nan Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2021]
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Summary:This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:9780674045330
DOI:10.4159/9780674045330

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