Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white /

In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the na...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sturkey, William (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
African Americans > Segregation > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > History.
White people > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Attitudes.
African Americans > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Public opinion.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > History > Personal narratives.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Histoire.
Personnes blanches > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Attitudes.
Noirs américains > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Opinion publique.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Histoire > Récits personnels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans > Public opinion
African Americans > Segregation
Civil rights movements
Race relations
White people > Attitudes
Hattiesburg (Miss.) > Race relations > History.
Mississippi > Hattiesburg
Personal Narrative
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: People of spirit
  • Visionaries
  • The bottom rail
  • The noble spirit
  • A little colony of Mississippians
  • Broken promises
  • Those who stayed
  • Reliance
  • Community children
  • Salvation
  • A rising
  • Crying in the wilderness
  • When the movement came
  • Conclusion: Changes.

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