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Author Moye, J. Todd, author.

Title Let the people decide : Black freedom and White resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 / J. Todd Moye
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Civil rights and social justice
Contents What it is to be without freedom, 1945-1955 -- Organized aggression must be met by organized resistance, 1954-1960 -- Our power must come from ourselves: civil rights organizing, 1960-1964 -- Sunflower County is in for a thorough working over: freedom summer and after -- Question that liberalism is incapable of answering: organizing alternatives, 1964-1977 -- Concerned citizens: civil rights organizing in the wake of the civil rights movement
Summary In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Segregation
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Racism
Social change
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Rassismus
Ethnische Beziehungen
Civil Rights Movement.
Rassenverhoudingen.
SUBJECT Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations
Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Biography
Subject Mississippi -- Sunflower County
Staat Mississippi
Schwärze
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004007424
ISBN 0807876704
9780807876701