Aaron Henry of Mississippi : Inside Agitator /

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When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morrison, Minion K. C., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Henry, Aaron, > 1922-1997.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Son of sharecroppers and entrepreneurs : rites of passage in a segregated society
  • Military service, family, and profession : challenging contested citizenship at war and at home
  • Aaron Henry, the NAACP, and indigenous leadership : the Clarksdale social movement
  • Demanding restoration of the black franchise : Henry heads the Freedom Vote ticket, a 1963 mock election
  • An alternative to the segregated state Democratic Party : the MFDP goes to Atlantic City, 1964
  • Henry the public entrepreneur and network tactician : exploiting national allies and cultivating local interracial partners
  • Private and public entrepreneurship for redistributive justice : addressing African American socioeconomic disparities
  • Taking the reins of the state Democratic Party : Henry wrests power from the segregationists
  • The summit and culmination : Henry as a state legislator and his political demise
  • Conclusion and postscript.

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