A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 /

Here, the author examines African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. Using a wide range of sources, she illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance in the early 20th century and the mass protests of the 50s and 6...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Jong, Greta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Colección:Civil rights and social justice.
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > Social conditions > 20th century.
Rural population > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Droits > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Population rurale > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Louisiane > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Social conditions
Civil rights movements
Politics and government
Race relations
Rural conditions
Rural population
Civil Rights Movement.
Platteland.
Louisiana > Race relations.
Louisiana > Rural conditions.
Louisiana > Politics and government.
Louisiane > Relations raciales.
Louisiane > Conditions rurales.
Louisiane > Politique et gouvernement.
Louisiana
History
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  • And did not pay them a cent : Reconstruction and the roots of the twentieth-century freedom struggle
  • Our plight here is bad : the limits of protest in a new South plantation economy
  • They will not fight in the open : strategies of resistance in the Jim Crow era
  • We feel you all aut to help us : struggles for citizenship, 1914-1929
  • With the aid of God and the F.S.A. : the Louisiana Farmers' Union and the freedom struggle in the New Deal era
  • I am an American born Negro : Black empowerment and white responses during World War II
  • The social order have changed : the emergence of the civil rights movement, 1945-1960
  • To provide leadership and an example : the Congress of Racial Equality and local people in the 1960s.

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