A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Crosby, Emilye.
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- 出版： Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- 叢書名： The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- 主題： African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century. , Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century. , Whites--Mississippi--Claiborne County--History--20th century. , African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography. , African Americans--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography. , Oral history , Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations. , Claiborne County (Miss.)--Biography. , Electronic books.
- ISBN： 080787681X (electronic bk.) 、 9780807876817 (electronic bk.)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index. 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 -- What it is this freedom? -- Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?
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- 系統號： 005021955 | 機讀編目格式
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In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.