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Author Crosby, Emilye.

Title A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Mississippi -- Claiborne County.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
White people -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.
White people.
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography.
African Americans.
Oral history.
Oral history.
Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Race relations.
Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Crosby, Emilye. Little taste of freedom. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005 080782965X 080785638X (DLC) 2005011754 (OCoLC)60187964
ISBN 080787681X (electronic book)
9780807876817 (electronic book)
080782965X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080785638X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807829653 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807856383 (paperback ; alkaline paper)