Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2007.
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| Serie: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.