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Thunder of Freedom : Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi /

This book offers a look at the struggle for rights and equality in one of the most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South. The book chronicles the arduous process of bringing early leaders - mainly farmers and town dwellers - into a coalition with the schoolteachers, pre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sojourner, Sue Lorenzi, 1941-
Other Authors: Reitan, Cheryl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 |a Becoming part of Holmes County -- Working with the people -- Building political strategies -- Developing the slate of candidates. 
520 |a This book offers a look at the struggle for rights and equality in one of the most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South. The book chronicles the arduous process of bringing early leaders - mainly farmers and town dwellers - into a coalition with the schoolteachers, preachers, and others professionals. Together, the coalition achieved success in electing the first Black representative in the 20th century to sit in the Mississippi House. 
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