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Title
American Congo / Nan Elizabeth WOODRUFF.
ISBN
9780674045330
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©2003
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674045330 doi
Summary
This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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text file PDF
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 The Forging of the Alluvial Empire
2 Tensions of Empire
3 The Killing Fields
4 The Black People's Burden
5 Revolt against Mean Things
6 A War within a War
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
1 The Forging of the Alluvial Empire
2 Tensions of Empire
3 The Killing Fields
4 The Black People's Burden
5 Revolt against Mean Things
6 A War within a War
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index