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A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
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A little taste of freedom [electronic resource] : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
ISBN
080782965X (cloth : alk. paper)
080785638X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xv, 354 p. : ill.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2014
Series
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index.
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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