Battling the Plantation Mentality Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle

Name: Battling the Plantation Mentality Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
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ISBN: 9780807858028

ISBN-10: 0807858021

ISBN-13: 9780807858028

Edition: 2007

Authors: Laurie B. Green

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African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanita

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction : migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the delta



Memphis before World War II : migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror



Where would the negro women apply for work? : wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice



Moral outrage : postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault



Night train, freedom train : black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War



Our mental liberties : banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere



Rejecting mammy : the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education



We were making history : students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis Freedom Movement



Battling the plantation mentality : from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike