Camp Nine : A Novel /

Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal murders of those who challenged the status quo. Nonetheless, Evers consistently investigated the rap...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Michael Vinson, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Evers, Medgar Wiley, > 1925-1963.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
Jackson (Miss.) > Biography.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Mama called him her special child": a lineage of resistance
  • The "road to Jericho": from the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi
  • The face of social change: the NAACP in Mississippi
  • A bloodied and battered Mississippi: 1955
  • The black wave: conservatism meets determinism
  • Riding the rails: freedom ride challenges and the Jackson movement
  • Two can play the game: the gauntlet toss
  • Mississippi, murder, and Medgar: our domestic killing fields.

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