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Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / Laurie B. Green.

Author/creator Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Description415 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006039792
ISBN9780807831069 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807831069 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807858028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807858021 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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