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Author Crosby, Emilye, author.

Title A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) : illustrations
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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?
Summary 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 resilience of white supremacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) 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 -- 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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Oral history
Race relations
White people
SUBJECT Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Race relations
Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Biography
Subject Mississippi -- Claiborne County
Genre/Form Oral history
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 080787681X
9780807876817