The senator and the sharecropper : the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer / Chris Myers Asch.
| Author/creator |
Asch, Chris Myers |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008. |
| Description | xvi, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
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| Spine title | Senator & the sharecropper |
| Contents | Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994 1 -- 1 Sunflower County, 1904 6 -- 2 Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter 33 -- 3 "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County 65 -- 4 "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad 99 -- 5 "From Cotton-to Communism-to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power 132 -- 6 "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement 167 -- 7 1964: Confrontations 198 -- 8 "This Is America's Sickness" 221 -- 9 "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back" 253 -- 10 "Right on Back to the Plantation" 279. |
| Review | "Sunflower County, Mississippi, is a land of deep contradictions. It boasts some of the world's richest soil, yet has produced widespread poverty that lingers to this day. It stood at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, yet still suffers from racial inequality. It has been on the forefront of globalization, yet continues to stagnate economically." "The Senator and the Sharecropper explores these paradoxes, telling the story of two larger-than-life personalities who epitomized the county's extremes: the senator, James O. Eastland, a wealthy white cotton planter who was one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation and rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007037378 |
| ISBN | 9781595583321 (hc.) |
| ISBN | 1595583327 (hc.) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | F 347.S9 A83 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |