A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.

A community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi that explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities. It analyzes the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, and the impact of the movement and the re...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Crosby, Emilye (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Series: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?