Crossroads at Clarksdale : the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II / Françoise N. Hamlin.
By: Hamlin, Françoise N
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BookSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012Description: xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780807835494 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807835498 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997 | Pigee, Vera Mae, 1924-2007 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coahoma County Branch -- History | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Clarksdale -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Clarksdale -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Clarksdale -- History -- 20th century | Segregation -- Mississippi -- Clarksdale -- History -- 20th century | Clarksdale (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century| Item type | Current location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Archive Request | Mississippi Department of Archives and History | General | Archival Reading Room | 323.1196/H223c/2012 | Available | 128823 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index.
Introduction: The black freedom struggle at the crossroads -- Washington was far away : defining a different postwar 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.