Title:
A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 / Greta de Jong.
Author:
De Jong, Greta.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
Call Number:
E185.93 .L6 D38 2002
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Electronic Access:
DescriptionPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2001057824.html
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001057824.html
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ISBN:
9780807827116
9780807853795
Physical Description:
xvi, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
And did not pay them a cent : Reconstruction and the roots of the twentieth-century freedom struggle -- Our plight here is bad : the limits of protest in a new South plantation economy -- They will not fight in the open : strategies of resistance in the Jim Crow era -- We feel you all aut to help us : struggles for citizenship, 1914-1929 -- With the aid of God and the F.S.A. : the Louisiana Farmers' Union and the freedom struggle in the New Deal era -- I am an American born Negro : Black empowerment and white responses during World War II -- The social order have changed : the emergence of the civil rights movement, 1945-1960 -- To provide leadership and an example : the Congress of Racial Equality and local people in the 1960s.
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