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Author Sturkey, William, author.

Title Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
©2019
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Description 1 online resource (442 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of justice and racial equality.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: People of spirit -- Visionaries -- The bottom rail -- The noble spirit -- A little colony of Mississippians -- Broken promises -- Those who stayed -- Reliance -- Community children -- Salvation -- A rising -- Crying in the wilderness -- When the movement came -- Conclusion: Changes.
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Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Mississippi -- Hattiesburg.
History.
White people -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Attitudes.
White people.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Public opinion.
African Americans.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History -- Personal narratives.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Subject Hattiesburg (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Public opinion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Civil rights movements.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
African Americans -- Public opinion.
Race relations.
White people -- Attitudes.
Genre/Form Personal Narrative.
History.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9780674240667 (electronic book)
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