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Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods /

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Main Author: Boyett, Patricia Michelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Piney Woods (Region) > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Piney Woods (Region) > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > Mississippi > Piney Woods (Region) > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Mississippi > Piney Woods (Region) > History > 20th century.
Piney Woods (Miss. : Region) > Race relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: roots of revolt
  • Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays
  • Massive resistance and the making of the movement
  • Freedom days and white knights
  • Operation freedom summer
  • Wars of attrition
  • War on the white knights and the white city
  • Trials of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Stalemate
  • Epilogue: road to redemption.

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