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Author Johnson, Mark A., author.

Title Rough tactics : Black performance in political spectacles, 1877-1932 / Mark A. Johnson
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents Cover -- ROUGH TACTICS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "Out in Full Force": Black Participation in Spectacular Politics before Disfranchisement, 1877-99 -- Chapter 2 "A Contest in Music" Election-Day Spectacles in the Central Georgia Temperance Campaigns, 1885-99 -- Bridge "A Strictly Social Function" The Contest of Black Labor and Confederate Memory at the 1903 UCV Reunion -- Chapter 3 "Furious Music" African Americans, Political Spectacles, and Street Theater in the Post-Disfranchisement South, 1909-32
Chapter 4 "To Do Our Bit for Good Government" W. C. Handy, E. H. Crump, and the 1909 Memphis Mayoral Election -- Epilogue "I Didn't Really Know How to Show My Opposition" Street Theater in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary A probing of the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement popular politics in the Jim Crow South
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject African Americans -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History
Race -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History
Street theater -- Southern States -- History
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Race -- Political aspects
Race relations
Street theater
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1496832876
9781496832870