Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /

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African American freedom is often defined by emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. This book argues that no single event makes this plainer than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Colección:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
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.
Noirs américains > Droits > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Racisme > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Segregation
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Racism
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Bürgerrecht
Rassentrennung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > History > 20th century.
Tennessee > Memphis
Schwärze
USA
Memphis, Tenn.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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