Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /

Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /

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Main Author: Green, Laurie Boush
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Racism > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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