A little taste of freedom [electronic resource] : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
2005
F347.C5 C76 2005eb
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A little taste of freedom [electronic resource] : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
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080782965X (cloth : alk. paper)
080785638X (pbk. : alk. paper)
080785638X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
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English
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xv, 354 p. : ill.
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F347.C5 C76 2005eb
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323.1762/285
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index.
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Table of Contents
Jim Crow rules
A taste of freedom
Adapting and preserving white supremacy
Working for a better day
Reacting to the Brown decision
Winning the right to organize
A new day begun
Moving for freedom
It really started out at Alcorn
Everybody stood for the boycott
Clinging to power and the past
Seeing that justice is done
Our leader Charles Evers
Charles Evers's own little empire
A legacy of polarization
Not nearly what it ought to be
Conclusion : What it is this freedom?
Epilogue. Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?
A taste of freedom
Adapting and preserving white supremacy
Working for a better day
Reacting to the Brown decision
Winning the right to organize
A new day begun
Moving for freedom
It really started out at Alcorn
Everybody stood for the boycott
Clinging to power and the past
Seeing that justice is done
Our leader Charles Evers
Charles Evers's own little empire
A legacy of polarization
Not nearly what it ought to be
Conclusion : What it is this freedom?
Epilogue. Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?