Bibliograph

Crossroads at Clarksdale, the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II, Françoise N. Hamlin

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Crossroads at Clarksdale, the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II, Françoise N. Hamlin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crossroads at Clarksdale

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

756594352

Responsibility statement

Françoise N. Hamlin

Series statement

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Sub title

the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the black freedom struggle at the crossroads -- Washington was far away: defining a different post-war delta -- M is for Mississippi and murder ... and mother -- I think freedom and talk freedom: demanding desegregation, 1960-1963 -- Fires of frustration: summers of 1963 to 1965 -- Children should not be subjected to what is going on there: desegregating schools -- It was a peaceful revolution: Johnson's great society and economic justice in Coahoma County -- Epilogue: I have not ended the story for there is no end: continuing histories of Clarksdale's black freedom struggle -- Appendix: black and white freedom summer volunteers in Clarksdale

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