The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi /

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"Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Françoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions about how civil rights organizing took...

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Other Authors: Ownby, Ted (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Race discrimination.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Discrimination raciale > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > Mississippi > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Race discrimination > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Grassroots Organizing in Mississippi That Changed National Politics
  • Collision and Collusion: Local Activism, Local Agency, and Flexible Alliances
  • The Struggle for Black Citizenship: Medgar Wiley Evers and the Fight for Civil Rights in Mississippi
  • Trouble in My Way: Curriculum, Conflict, and Confrontation at Jackson State University, 1945-1963
  • "Hell Fired Out of Him": The Muting of James Silver in Mississippi.
  • "Doing a Little Something to Pave the Way for Others": Participants of the Church Visit Campaign to Challenge Jackson's Segregated Sanctuaries, 1963-1964
  • "Born of Conviction": White Mississippians Argue Civil Rights in 1963
  • Shades of Anti-Civil Rights Violence: Reconsidering the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
  • "It's Time for Black Men . . .": The Deacons for Defense and the Mississippi Movement
  • Robert Clark and the Ascendancy to Black Power: The Case of the Mississippi Black State Legislators.
  • "The Movement Is in You": The Sunflower County Freedom Project and the Lessons of the Civil Rights Past
  • "Looking the Devil in the Eye": Race Relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County History and Memory
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
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  • I
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  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
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