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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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Online Access: Full Text (via HeinOnline)
Main Author: Crosby, Emilye (Author)
Other title:HeinOnline civil rights and social justice.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Claiborne County > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Claiborne County > History > 20th century.
White people > Mississippi > Claiborne County > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Claiborne County > Biography.
African Americans > Mississippi > Claiborne County > Biography.
Oral history.
Claiborne County (Miss.) > Race relations.
Claiborne County (Miss.) > Biography.
Oral histories.
Biography.
Biographies.
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?

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