Crossroads at Clarksdale : the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II /

Crossroads at Clarksdale : the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II /

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Author / Creator:Hamlin, Françoise N., author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject:
Henry, Aaron, -- 1922-1997.
Pigee, Vera Mae, -- 1924-2007.
Henry, Aaron, -- 1922-1997.
Pigee, Vera Mae, -- 1924-2007.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -- Coahoma County Branch -- History.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -- Coahoma County Branch.
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.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Civil rights movements.
Race relations.
Segregation.
Clarksdale (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Clarksdale.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132055
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ISBN:9780807869857
0807869856
9781469601694
1469601699
9780807835494
0807835498
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index.
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021).
Summary:"Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments of its diverse African American community and strong NAACP branch, and examining the extreme brutality of entrenched power there. The Clarksdale story defies triumphant narratives of dramatic change, and presents instead a layered, contentious, untidy, and often disappointingly unresolved civil rights movement. Following the black freedom struggle in Clarksdale from World War II through the first decade of the twenty-first century allows Hamlin to tell multiple, interwoven stories about the town's people, their choices, and the extent of political change. She shows how members of civil rights organizations--especially local leaders Vera Pigee and Aaron Henry--worked to challenge Jim Crow through fights against inequality, police brutality, segregation, and, later, economic injustice. With Clarksdale still at a crossroads today, Hamlin explores how to evaluate success when poverty and inequality persist"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Hamlin, Françoise N. Crossroads at Clarksdale. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9780807835494
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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