A little taste of freedom [electronic resource] : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
By: Crosby, Emilye.
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Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005Description: xv, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century | Whites -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century | African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography | African Americans -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography | Oral history | Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Race relations | Claiborne County (Miss.) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1762/285 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 323.173 The abolition of white democracy | 323.173/09/0511 We are all suspects now | 323.17309 Americans without law | 323.1762/285 A little taste of freedom | 323.3 The disability rights movement | 323.3/264 Same sex, different politics | 323.3/264/0973 The long arc of justice |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index.
Jim Crow rules -- A taste of freedom -- Adapting and preserving white supremacy -- Working for a better day -- Reacting to the Brown decision -- Winning the right to organize -- A new day begun -- Moving for freedom -- It really started out at Alcorn -- Everybody stood for the boycott -- Clinging to power and the past -- Seeing that justice is done -- Our leader Charles Evers -- Charles Evers's own little empire -- A legacy of polarization -- Not nearly what it ought to be -- Conclusion : What it is this freedom? -- Epilogue. Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?
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