A little taste of freedom
Crosby, Emilye.
A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / [electronic resource] : Emilye Crosby. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - xv, 354 p. : ill. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - 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 -- What it is this freedom? -- Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story? Conclusion : Epilogue.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
Whites--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
African Americans--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
Oral history.
Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations.
Claiborne County (Miss.)--Biography.
Electronic books.
F347.C5 / C76 2005eb
323.1762/285
A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / [electronic resource] : Emilye Crosby. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - xv, 354 p. : ill. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - 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 -- What it is this freedom? -- Looking the Devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story? Conclusion : Epilogue.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
Whites--History--Mississippi--Claiborne County--20th century.
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
African Americans--Mississippi--Claiborne County--Biography.
Oral history.
Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations.
Claiborne County (Miss.)--Biography.
Electronic books.
F347.C5 / C76 2005eb
323.1762/285