A little taste of freedom [electronic resource] : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby.
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TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: xv, 354 p. : illSubject(s): - African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century
- Whites -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 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
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- F347.C5 C76 2005eb
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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