Let the People Decide Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

Name: Let the People Decide Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
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ISBN: 9780807855614

ISBN-10: 0807855618

ISBN-13: 9780807855614

Edition: 2004

Authors: J. Todd Moye

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In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades. Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, the freedom-fighting sharecropper who rose to national prominence as head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Sunflower was the birthplace of the Citizens' Council, the white South's pre-eminent anti-civil rights organization, but it was also a…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

J. Todd Moye is assistant professor of history and director of the oral history program at the University of North Texas.



Prologue. At the hands of parties known : the social force of racialized justice in the Mississippi Delta



Introduction



What it is to be without freedom, 1945-1955



Organized aggression must be met by organized resistance, 1954-1960



Our power must come from ourselves : civil rights organizing, 1960-1964



Sunflower county is in for a thorough working over : freedom summer and after



Questions that liberalism is incapable of answering : organizing alternatives, 1964-1977



Concerned citizens : civil rights organizing in the wake of the civil rights movement