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Our Portion of Hell : Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights /

"Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Author Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as part of a studen...

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Autor principal: Hamburger, Robert, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Edición:[New edition].
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the new edition
  • Introduction
  • Part I: "Thinking for myself"
  • the beginning:1959-1960
  • Part II. "Going on to register""
  • 1960-1961
  • Part III. "A few movements to improve things"
  • 1963-1965
  • Part IV. "It's gonna take bone determination"
  • School integration: 1965-1967
  • Part V. "It's a power structure type of operation"
  • Federal aid: 1966-1971
  • Part VI. "Black man don't get no justice here"
  • The Hobson incident. 1969
  • Part VII. "Doin something you knew was right"
  • Trouble in the schools: 1969-1970
  • Part VIII. "We oughta take all these sonsofbitches off and kill 'em"
  • 1969-1970
  • Part IX. "I don't know how I can stop"
  • Afterword to the new edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of illustrations.