Battling the Plantation Mentality : Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2007]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.