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Life and death in the Delta : African American narratives of violence, resilience, and social change / Kim Lacy Rogers.

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Using oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Kim Lacy Rogers explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region's history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality. Terrorism, blac...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Rogers, Kim Lacy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Palgrave studies in oral history.
Subjects:
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Social conditions.
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Interviews.
Rural poor > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
African American farmers > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Social change > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Rural conditions.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Race relations.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Biography.
African American farmers.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Rural conditions.
Rural poor.
Social change.
Mississippi > Delta Region.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • Conditions of life and death
  • Changes and movement among the poor
  • Achieving in the rural: independence and leadership in Bolivar County
  • The wilderness of social change: the movement and Head Start
  • The limits of political power.

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