the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi /
Emilye Crosby
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2005
xv, 354 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index
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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African American civil rights workers-- Mississippi-- Claiborne County, Biography
African Americans-- Civil rights-- Mississippi-- Claiborne County-- History-- 20th century
African Americans-- Mississippi-- Claiborne County, Biography
Civil rights movements-- Mississippi-- Claiborne County-- History-- 20th century
Oral history
Whites-- Mississippi-- Claiborne County-- History-- 20th century