A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi /

A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi /

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Main Author: Crosby, Emilye
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
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.) > Biography.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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