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Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
Author
Title
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt / Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
ISBN
9780814743652
081474365X
9780814743317
0814743056
9780814743058
0814743315
Publication
Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2010.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 348 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: 2009.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells the remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2021
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Conditions Unfavorable to the Rise of the Negro: The Pursuit of Freedom Rights before the Civil Rights Era
2. I Didn't Come Here to Knock: The Making of a Grassroots Social Movement
3. We Ain't Going to Shed a Tear for Jon: School Desegregation, White Resistance, and the African American Response
4. I'm Going to Try to Take Some of the Freedom Here Back Home: The Federal Government and the Fight for Freedom Rights
5. We Gonna Show Alabama Just How Bad We Are: The Birth of the Original Black Panther Party and the Development of Freedom Politics
6. Tax the Rich to Feed the Poor: Black Power and the Election of 1966
7. Now Is the Time for Work to Begin: Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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