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

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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.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American leadership.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Leadership noir americain > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African American leadership > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780813140957

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